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Republicans want new MARTA vote postponed

By Curt Yeomans

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Gwinnett’s remaining Republican representatives in the Georgia House are not in a rush to see another vote on joining MARTA anytime soon and are seeking a legislative method to keep it off the ballot in 2020.

And that brought the gloves off between Democrats and Republicans in Gwinnett’s House delegation

on Friday.

T h e amendment has been attached to Senate Bill 200 and would kick the earliChuck Efstration est date for another MARTA vote back to 2026, giving it what state Rep. Chuck Efstration, R-Dacula, called a “cooling-off period.”

The bill that the amendment

is being attached to deals with Georgia Department of Transportation contracts.

“Local officials should not call for repeated ballot questions until their desired outcome is realized,” Efstration said.

All six Republicans in Gwinnett’s House delegation signed a letter to their House colleagues explaining the amendment Friday morning. The move comes on the heels of the defeat of a March 19 referendum on

Gwinnett joining MARTA. The amendment could come up for a vote Tuesday, which is the final day of the General Assembly’s 2019 legislative session.

The move seemingly caught county officials — who were in Athens for their strategic planning retreat — off guard.

The move would not block the county from pursuing a transportation special purpose local option sales tax under the Atlanta

Transit Link Authority, but another vote in November 2020 on joining MARTA had remained an option.

“That limits our flexibility by removing one option for a period of time,” Gwinnett Commission Chairwoman Charlotte Nash said. “It’s going to take some time to really think through what that means for us. We were already in the process of having to look at and process all of the options. You know me, I always prefer

more options rather than less.”

The amendment is being pushed by Efstration and state Reps. Brett Harrell, R-Snellville; Tom Kirby, R-Loganville; David ClarkR-Buford; Timothy Barr, R-Lawrenceville; and Bonnie Rich, R-Suwanee.

In their letter to their colleagues in the broader House, the group pointed to the results of last week’s See MARTA, A5

Gwinnett DA files motion for judge to recuse herself

By Isabel Hughes

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Just days after a court filing alleged that Gwinnett County Superior Court Judge Kathryn Schrader expressly gave a convicted sex offender access to the county’s computer network, Gwinnett County District Attorney Danny Porter is calling for her to recuse herself from all criminal cases.

In a motion filed Friday afternoon, Porter called for Schrader to be recused from “all other pending and future Danny criminal cases that may come Porter before this Court during the tenure of Daniel J. Porter as District Attorney.”

“The State does not file this motion lightly,” Porter wrote in the motion. “However, given the circumstances described in the accompanying affidavit, Georgia law requires that it be filed in an effort to Kathryn preserve the integrity of our Schrader courts and judicial system.”

The basis for Porter’s motion is an allegation brought by Schrader that Porter hacked her computer — something Porter denies and previously called “delusional.”

Schrader’s suspicions, however, led the judge to hire a private investigator to look into the suspected hacking, according to a Monday court filing by the attorney for convicted sex offender Ed Kramer.

The Monday filing details that Schrader reached out to private investigator T.J. Ward in early February, who then called in other people — including Kramer, who See RECUSE, A5

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Cedar Hill Elementary School fifth-grade teacher Kennedy Cobble has beaten cancer four times. She was first diagnosed at 14, though was able to graduate high school in five years. She then went on to pursue teaching — a passion that was ignited, in part, by teachers she worked with while she was unable to attend traditional high school. (Staff Photo: Isabel Hughes)

Comeback from cancer

By Isabel Hughes

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Cedar Hill Elementary School fifth-grade teacher Kennedy Cobble is no stranger to funny looks.

“I would get so many stares being in a wheelchair, or if I had a walker or crutches or a cane … but nobody would really say anything, except for kids,” said Cobble, a four-time cancer survivor. “That’s (one) reason I wanted to go into teaching; I liked that (kids) were so up front and honest and flat-out asked me.”

Though Cobble no longer requires a wheelchair or walker

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to get around, the 27-year-old still uses a cane, which continues to prompt questions from students.

But Cobble, who is in her first year of teaching, welcomes the inquiries, and uses her students’ curiosity as an opportunity to tell her story and raise awareness of childhood cancer, while motivating her students to push through any obstacles they may be experiencing.

“When I first meet my kids or when I had a new class studentteaching, I have a scrapbook that I go through with them to show pictures when I was bald,” Cobble said. “It’s just different things

Cedar Hill teacher uses diagnosis to motivate students

I do to raise awareness about childhood cancer, and that way they’re not left wondering what happened.”

Cobble, an Atlanta-area native, was first diagnosed with osteosarcoma, one of the most common types of bone cancer, when she was 14.

“I had lost a ton of weight; I was skin and bones in eighth grade,” she said. “I had severe pain, and nobody could figure out what was wrong. Finally, (doctors) did an MRI and found (the tumor) — it was a big mass in my sacrum, which is basically your tailbone, and it was hiding inside of there.”

The MRI was done on a Friday.

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By Monday, Cobble was back in the hospital.

“They wanted to get it before (it spread); it’s a pretty difficult cancer to beat,” she said. “Childhood cancer, period, there are not as many survivors as you’d think there would be, so they wanted to start as soon as they could.”

Because of the tumor’s location, all of the local doctors Cobble went to told her she’d never walk again.

“Where your sacrum is, it holds everything together. It holds your legs to your spine, then you have all the nerves there as well,” she See INSPIRE, A5

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ban abortions after a fetus’ heartbeat can be detected drew swift and strong responses from people and groups on both sides of the debate over the bill.

House Bill 481, also known as the “Heartbeat Bill,” was passed by the House in a 92-78 vote on Friday, sending it to Gov. Brian Kemp, who is expected to sign it into law.

While Kemp thanked lawmakers for passing the bill, he also said there was still work to be done.

“Our efforts to protect life do not end here,” the governor said. “We must work to ease the adoption process, find loving homes for those in our foster care system, and protect the aging and vulnerable. Together, we will ensure that all Georgians are safe and have the opportunity to live, grow, learn and prosper.”

Political groups on both sides of the debate over the bill quickly began weighing in on its passage shortly after the House vote Friday. The Faith and Freedom Coalition of Georgia, for example, praised the bill’s passage and thanked state leaders while the ACLU of Georgia threatened to take the state to court if Kemp signed the bill into law.

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Kendrick also posted a warning to Republicans on her Twitter page Friday.

“We. Are. Coming. For. Yeomans Your. Seats,” she said in the tweet, with each word stacked vertically.

Meanwhile, state Rep. David Clark, R-Buford, struck a different tone on social media.

“The Heartbeat Bill just passed the House 92-78 and is now headed to Gov. Kemp for his signature! #AllLivesMatter #ProLife #HB481,” he said in a Facebook post.

Candidates for political offices were also quick to weigh in the matter.

“It is my hope that the voters of Georgia come together to ensure that these rogue legislators pay the price politically come reelection,” Seventh Congressional District candidate Marqus Cole said in a statement. “It is despicable that they have chosen to play politics with women’s health on the line.”

Former state senator and Democratic county commission chairman candidate Curt Thompson said the state had to “do better by women” while also making strives to reduce maternal and infant mortality.

“Women have the right to make their own reproductive healthcare decisions and it is not the government’s place to interfere,” Thompson said. “I, like many others, find myself disappointed and outraged at the actions that have been

taken by Republicans in the Georgia General Assembly with regards to HB 481.”

Okoye formally jumps into state senate race It had been speculated for months that former Gwinnett County Democratic Party Chairman Gabe Okoye was going to run for the state Senate District 9 seat, but he made it official Tuesday.

Okoye will seek one of Gwinnett’s two remaining Republican-held seats in the Georgia Senate next year.

The seat is currently held by Sen. P.K. Martin, R-Lawrenceville.

“I am running for State Senate because it is Gabe Okoye time to give a fearless, strong voice to the fearful voiceless in our district in particular, and Gwinnett in general,” Okoye said in an email to supporters. “I am running so that I can fight for the issues that are important to the voters and not the lobbyists.”

Okoye is conducting a poll at bit.ly/2Wxhaqs to gather input from residents of the Senate district to determine what issues are important to them. He said in his letter to supporters that the responses will help “form the core of my platform.”

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New suspect indicted in meth house explosion

By Isabel Hughes

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A new suspect in the 2011 Lilburn methamphetamine fire that killed three children has been indicted on 10 counts — six of which are for felony murder.

Mariano Sandoval, 33, was indicted March 6 following an “extensive investigation” by law enforcement, including Gwinnett County District Attorney’s Office investigators, according to Deputy Chief

WORLD

Comedian might be voters’ best choice in Ukraine’s election Europe is bracing for one expensive, long and exhausting election. A record number of 39 candidates are gunning for the top spot in the first round of Ukraine’s presidential elections Sunday.

Ukrainian voters will be greeted with a mesmerizing docket in the voting booth: a dermatologist, a trained spy, a former tax chief on trial over corruption, a self-proclaimed Cossack military commander of Ukraine, an anchorwoman, a comedian and a few filthy rich oligarchs. To round out the ballot is Illia Kyva, criminally convicted of bribery (but later granted amnesty) and who has a penchant for homophobic posts on Facebook and posting his naked muscular torso on Instagram.

Also remarkable is that there are three, rather than the usual two front-runners: the dinosaurs — known as the “chocolate king” (incumbent President Petro Poroshenko) and the “gas princess” (former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko) — and a professional comedian (Volodymyr Zelenskiy) are in a heated race to advance to the second-round runoff April 21.

London protests cause gridlock as Brexit vote raises tensions U.K. police confirmed five arrests were made during proBrexit protests in London that lasted into Friday night.

Demonstrators blocked streets around the Houses of Parliament in central London as lawmakers rejected Prime Minister Theresa May’s E.U. withdrawal deal for a third time, on the day that the U.K. was originally meant to leave the European Union.

Metropolitan Police tweeted that by 9 p.m. local time, two people had been arrested for assault, one for being drunk and disorderly, one for assaulting a police officer, and one who was wanted for an offense in another part of the country.

Marchers carried placards, bearing slogans including “No deal is better than a bad deal,” “Every nation has the right to self-determination” and “Leave means Leave.”

Others chanted “This country has turned into a dictatorship” and “we want our Brexit back.”

Brunei to punish gay sex and adultery with death by stoning A new law which comes into effect from next week will punish homosexual sex and adultery with death in the small southeast Asian kingdom of Brunei.

Beginning April 3, any individuals found guilty of the offenses will be stoned to death, according to a new penal code. The punishment will be “witnessed by a group of Muslims.”

The country’s strict new laws were announced in 2014, and have been rolled out gradually. The latest phase of implementation, including the brutal new provisions, was quietly announced on the Brunei attorney general’s website Dec. 29.

“Brunei must immediately halt its plans to implement these vicious punishments, and revise its Penal Code in compliance with its human rights obligations. The international community must urgently condemn Brunei’s move to put these cruel penalties into practice,” Rachel Chhoa-Howard, Brunei Researcher at Amnesty International, said in a statement.

— From wire reports

Assistant District Attorney Lisa Jones.

The investigation began after prosecutors and police determined Ivan Gonzales, who was initially thought to be present when an explosion ripped through a meth lab in a home on Lilburn’s normallyquiet Spring Mill Drive, was not, in fact, present.

Gonzales was arrested in Mexico in 2015 and charged in the fire, though those charges were later dropped.

“Evidence of that investigation revealed Mariano San-

doval was the third defendant at the scene during the time of the explosion, along with Neibi Brito and Mariano Joseph Perez,” Sandoval Jones said.

“Accordingly, he was indicted for the offenses, was arrested in California, and was extradited to Gwinnett County to face those now-pending charges.”

Brito and Perez pleaded

guilty to voluntary manslaughter in March 2013 in connection with the fire, which killed Brito’s children — Isaac Guevara, 4, Ivan Guevara, 3, and Stacy Brito, 18 months.

Both were sentenced to 30 years in prison to be followed by 20 years of supervised release in addition to mandatory fines totaling about $1.3 million, the Daily Post previously reported.

The plea knocked down murder charges in the original indictment to voluntary manslaughter and avoided the

possibility of life sentences.

According to previous reports by the Daily Post, on Feb. 17, 2011, something sparked an explosion at the Spring Mill Drive home where Perez and Brito — Brito is Perez’ cousin by marriage — lived.

Perez, who told prosecutors he was aiding in the cooking and washing of meth at the time, carried Brito outside, leaving the young children upstairs.

Though the three kids were pulled from a second-story

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In honor of his past service to our Country, Navy Seal #EddieGallagher will soon be moved to less restrictive confinement while he awaits his day in court.

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A Navy SEAL charged with murdering a wounded person and shooting at noncombatants will be moved to “less restrictive confinement,” President Donald Trump announced Saturday.

Trump tweeted, “In honor of his past service to our Country, Navy Seal #EddieGallagher will soon be moved to less restrictive confinement while he awaits his day in court. Process should move quickly! @foxandfriends @RepRalphNorman.”

An attorney for the SEAL in question told CNN that the timeline was “still being worked out” on the change to his client Eddie Gallagher’s confinement.

“One would hope that when a directive has been issued by the president it would happen quickly, so our anticipation is that it will happen today or tomorrow,” attorney Phillip Stackhouse said in an email Saturday morning to CNN. Gallagher has been charged with various vio-

President Donald Trump via Twitter

President Donald Trump, above, announced Saturday that Eddie Gallagher, a Navy SEAL charged with murdering a wounded person and shooting at non-combatants, will be moved to “less restrictive confinement.” (CNN) lations of the Uniform Code of Military Justice while deployed to Mosul, Iraq, in 2017. He has been accused of stabbing and murdering a wounded person, shooting at noncombatants and posing for a photo and performing his re-enlistment ceremony next to a dead body.

The Navy did not have a comment on Trump’s announcement and referred CNN to the White House.

CNN has reached out to the White House for details.

Several dozen members of Congress, led by South Carolina Republican Rep. Ralph Norman, have been

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Flake: Better a Dem win in 2020 than Trump Former Republican Sen. Jeff Flake would prefer a Democrat win the 2020 election than have President Donald Trump serve a second term, saying that “four years is difficult enough to unravel some of the damage” done internationally by the administration.

Flake, a longtime Trump critic who argued Thursday that the Republican Party should not support Trump in 2020, was asked if it is better for a Democrat to win the election if Trump is the Republican nominee.

“Yes ... and this notion, this narrative that’s been built up, that Donald Trump is the only one that can cobble together the Electoral College and win is just a fallacy,” Flake replied at an Intelligence Squared debate in New York City. The organization bills itself as a “nonpartisan, non-profit” group that hosts debates aimed at promoting various points of view.

“I think that four years is difficult enough to unravel some of the damage that has been done internationally to our role, to our leadership position. We cannot, should not go another four years,” the Arizona Republican said.

Couple caught 2 months after being charged for killing 4-year-old Authorities have captured a Cleveland couple who has been on the run since January, when they were charged for the death of a 4-year-old boy found buried in a trash bag in the backyard of a Cleveland home nearly two years ago.

Joanne Vega, 31, and her husband Romaine Tolbert, 36, were taken into custody by the U.S. Marshals Service on Friday in the 300 block of East Maumee Street in Adrian,

Former Republican Sen. Jeff Flake, right, said he would prefer a Democrat win the 2020 election than have President Donald Trump serve a second term. (CNN) Michigan.

The couple was indicted on Jan. 14 and charged with murder, permitting child abuse, felonious assault, endangering children, involuntary manslaughter, gross abuse of a corpse, tampering with evidence and kidnapping, according to court documents.

Vega is the godmother of Eliazar Ruiz, whose skeletal remains were found buried in the 12900 block of Longmead Avenue in September 2017.

Authorities said the 4-yearold had likely been buried there several months before he was found.

FDA proposes changes to mammography The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced proposed changes to mammography standards Wednesday.

These are the first changes to the regulation of mammography screening in more than 20 years, aimed at improving quality and modernizing breast cancer screening, FDA Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb said.

The key changes include providing patients with information about breast density, in the form of a letter, with screening results.

Mammograms of dense breasts are known to be more difficult to read and interpret.

“The dense tissue can obscure signs of breast cancer and lower

the sensitivity of the image,” according to the FDA. Dense breasts are also known to be a risk factor for breast cancer. More than half of women over age 40 have dense breasts, according to the FDA. “The FDA is proposing specific language that would explain how breast density can influence the accuracy of mammography and would recommend patients with dense breasts talk to their health care provider about high breast density and how it relates to breast cancer risk and their individual situation.”

Lawyer: Jussie Smollett prosecutor ‘misled the public’ about dropped felony charges Prosecutors who dropped felony charges against actor Jussie Smollett over his report of a hate crime attack “have fundamentally misled the public on the law and circumstances surrounding the dismissal,” an Illinois lawyers group said.

The way Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx and her office resolved the case also was “abnormal and unfamiliar to those who practice law,” wrote the Illinois Prosecutors Bar Association.

The scathing statement, issued Thursday, follows claims

by Foxx and her top deputy, Joe Magats, that “alternative

pushing to move Gallagher as he awaits trial in May. Norman said Friday on Twitter he had spoken with Trump about moving Gallagher and that it was “appropriate that he be treated as a decorated soldier who still has the presumption of innocence.” Austin Livingston, a spokesman for Norman, said he did not have any details about the timing of Gallagher’s relocation and said the congressman was not taking a position on Gallagher’s guilt or innocence.

Gallagher was arrested last fall and is being held at a brig at the Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in San Diego, according to navy officials.

CNN’s Ryan Browne and Eric Fiegel contributed to this report. prosecution,” like the resolution brokered in Smollett’s case, is not uncommon and is available to all defendants, celebrity or not. Smollet, 36, agreed to forfeit $10,000 bail and complete community service in exchange for the dismissal of 16 charges alleging he’d orchestrated a fake racist, anti-gay attack on himself.

Further, Foxx and her office “falsely informed the public” that sealing the criminal case was “mandatory,” the prosecutors’ organization said. And a special prosecutor should have been appointed when Foxx, citing familiarity with a potential witness, recused herself from the case, the group insisted.

Trump administration planned a road cutting through wildlife refuge U.S. District Judge Sharon Gleason ruled the Trump administration’s plans to build a road through a national wildlife refuge in Alaska violate federal law.

The ruling came in a lawsuit that was filed by Friends of Alaska National Wildlife Refuges and other wildlife advocacy organizations, against the U.S. Department of Interior and its Acting Secretary (who at the time was Ryan Zinke, but he has now been replaced

by David Bernhardt), the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the King Cove Corporation.

Previous administration policies rejected the idea of a road several times. They maintained there were options and that its construction would be detrimental to the refuge’s wildlife. But following the 2016 presidential campaign, Zinke entered into an exchange agreement with the King Cove Corporation, which would give the community the road they’ve been asking for.

The decision discarded previous findings and was almost a complete reversal on the policies so far maintained by other administrations.

— From wire reports

window, all eventually succumbed to burns and smoke inhalation.

Brito is not believed to have actually helped cook drugs; she was, however, aware of what was going on in the house, Jones previously told the Daily Post.

Sandoval is accused of fleeing after the explosion, which, in part, led to the confusion as to who the third person involved was.

He is now in custody at the Gwinnett County Jail, awaiting trial.

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Lil Nas X is kicked off country chart, leading some to blame racism It’s not even two minutes long, but some are spending plenty of time debating a song about a horse by an up-and-coming rapper.

Atlanta’s Lil Nas X has had a viral hit with the song “Old Town Road,” which Billboard has reportedly pulled from its country music charts.

The song found love on the TikTok app, where users create and share video clips set to music.

It quickly raced up the Apple Music and Spotify charts and debuted simultaneously on Billboard’s crossgenre Hot 100, Hot Country Songs and Hot R&B/HipHop Songs charts.

But according to Rolling Stone magazine, Billboard pulled it from the country charts.

“Upon further review, it was determined that ‘Old Town Road’ by Lil Nas X does not currently merit inclusion on Billboard’s country charts,” Billboard said in a statement to Rolling Stone.

“When determining genres, a few factors are examined, but first and foremost is musical composition. While ‘Old Town Road’ incorporates references to country and cowboy imagery, it does not embrace enough elements of today’s country music to chart in its current version.”

Nicolas Cage files for an annulment just four days after marrying Nicolas Cage appears to be having second thoughts after getting married in Las Vegas last weekend.

The actor filed for an annulment on Wednesday, just four days after marrying his girlfriend, Erika Koike, according to court records obtained by CNN. The 55-year-old and Koike filed for their marriage license and tied-theknot last Saturday.

This is Cage’s fourth marriage.

YouTube mom pleads not guilty to abusing her adopted children YouTube mom Machelle Hobson pleaded not guilty Friday in an Arizona court to 30 counts of kidnapping and child abuse.

Hobson ran the “Fantastic Adventures” YouTube channel, which featured her seven adopted children. It had racked up more than 250 million views before it was pulled following the abuse allegations.

A welfare check at her home showed that Hobson would withhold food and water for days at a time, pepper-spray the kids, and force them to take ice baths, according to a statement of probable cause in Maricopa, Arizona.

Hobson sat in a wheelchair and said only a few words to the judge. She remains jailed on a $200,000 bond.

Pinal County Superior Court Judge Delia Neal set a pretrial conference for May 1.

If convicted, Hobson faces at least 50 years in prison, Pinal County Attorney Kent Volkmer said.

“The allegations described were horrifying,” he said, adding further charges are possible. “There is so much more investigation to go forward, documents to review.”

— From wire reports

A4 ♦ Sunday, March 31, 2019 ♦ gwinnettdailypost.com COLUMNISTIKEITH ROACH

DEAR DR. ROACH: My daughter was diagnosed with lymphomatoid papulosis. It’s not a bad case, but it’s enough to make me worry. I know it’s rare for this to turn into cancer, but there is always a chance. Doctors often misdiagnose it, but thankfully I have the best pathologist in the world.

My daughRoach ter is being treated with UVB light, which worked in the past, but now is not helping. I don’t want to do methotrexate. I worry about every dot that pops up on her, and if it doesn’t go away, I think the worst.

— M.W.M. ANSWER: Lymphomatoid papulosis is a rare disease, most common in people in their 40s, but can happen in children and older adults as well. The cause is unknown, and although a virus is suspected, it hasn’t been found.

It is not contagious.

The rash of LyP is not specific and needs to be confirmed through biopsy.

Spots are relatively large (but less than an inch), and usually red but with a white center that can turn black. The rash comes and goes. A skilled pathologist in combination with an experienced dermatologist is necessary to make the diagnosis.

Adults are treated with methotrexate if the lesions are in a cosmetically important area, especially the face.

UVA light is better studied than UVB light, especially in children, but an expert would be the most appropriate to recommend the best treatment.

Your concern about cancer is understandable. Rates of associated cancer — specifically, lymphoma, a blood and bone marrow cancer — have been reported in 5 to 50 percent of people with LyP. Unfortunately, apart from people with a specific gene rearrangement, there’s no way yet known to predict who is likely to get lymphoma nor any way of preventing it. She will need to be vigilant. Fortunately, the lymphomas, if they do develop, are usually effectively treated.

DEAR DR. ROACH: I just found out that the internist I have been going to for 40 years does not believe in the flu vaccine. He thinks it contains multiple heavy metals. Can you tell me how to find out which heavy metals the flu vaccines contain?

Equally important: Are the heavy metal concentrations bad for humans?

— D.C. ANSWER: Flu vaccines in multidose vials contain the preservative thiomersal. Thiomersal does contain mercury — in the way that table salt contains the inflammable metal sodium and the deadly gas chlorine — but it’s in an amount that is so small (about 0.02 milligrams), you need not worry about it. The body has ways of removing ethyl mercury (the form in thiomersal). There are no other heavy metals in the influenza vaccine. You may request a single-dose vial dose, which does not need or contain any preservative.

You can find out the ingredients from the manufacturer’s package insert.

An internist should know enough chemistry to be able to understand and explain the difference between various forms of mercury, as well as relaying that it’s the size of the dose that makes the poison. I have significant concerns about, and could not recommend, a physician who could make that kind of error.

After 40 years, you will have to make the choice whether you want to continue with him.

Dr. Roach writes the “To Your Good Health column. He regrets that he is unable to answer individual letters, but will incorporate them in the column whenever possible. Readers may email questions to ToYourGoodHealth@med.cornell.edu or send mail to 628 Virginia Dr., Orlando, FL 32803.

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In 1930, the Motion Picture Production Code was adopted to regulate mature content in movies.

In 1968, President Lyndon Johnson declared a halt to bombing missions over North Vietnam and closed the televised speech with the announcement that he would not run for re-election.

In 1995, singer-songwriter Selena was murdered by the former president of her fan club.

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TODAY’S SPORTS: In 1975, Hall of Fame basketball coach John Wooden announced his retirement during the postgame press conference after leading his UCLA Bruins to a 92-85 win over the Kentucky Wildcats and earning his NCAArecord 10th national title.

TODAY’S QUOTE: “If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.” -- Rene Descartes

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COLUMNISTI AMY DICKINSON

Bestie’s schedule leaves no time to visit DEAR AMY: My best friend has always kept her schedule jam-packed, but she has always been there when I needed her, and vice versa, no matter her schedule.

We live several hours away from each other, but text and call each other often.

We rarely see each other, and I miss her. Several months ago, I asked to stay a weekend with her because I would be in town for a family wedding.

She happily agreed, saying she had that weekend wide open.

The wedding is next weekend, and she texted me saying that I am still more than welcome to come, but gave me her schedule. She has scheduled seven other things to take place in the two days I’ll be there. Some I can understand, like her son’s therapy appointment. But other things were not as big a deal, like going on a double date with her neighbors.

She suggested that I could visit with her parents, who live in her neighborhood. I love her parents. They have become like grandparents to my kids, but I can’t help but feel pawned off.

I have lost the desire to stay with her, but she did agree to watch my kids during the no-kids-allowed ceremony.

I know nobody else in that city. What should I do?

— Not a Priority DEAR NOT A PRIORITY: You should drop to your knees and thank the friend who has not only opened her home to you and your children, but is also spending time with your kids during what (I assume) will be a lengthy Saturday commitment for you at a “no-kids” wedding.

She has also given you an idea for something to do (spending time with her folks, whom you say you love) during the time she will be out of the house.

It seems as if you are

interpreting this weekend visit as primarily a personal visitation with her.

And yet the original inviDickinson tation (which you solicited) was for you to visit her town in order for you to attend a wedding.

Your time with her might come down to a coffee catchup at the kitchen table, or her helping you to get ready for the wedding. Make the most of it.

DEAR AMY: I am a 66-year-old man. I recently withdrew from my monthly poker group, where I’ve played for the last 12 years.

The owner of the home where we play cards generally “restricts” the players to about seven or eight versions of “straight” poker. Experienced players know there are dozens of other poker versions that offer fun and mental variety to the game.

One night recently, one player asked to “break with tradition” and was permitted to play a “split pot” game.

Wow! Five minutes later, I asked for the same dispensation but was inexplicably denied.

Seems like I had a clarion moment and realized that I was not an “equal” player in the game (we are all well over 60), and was simply being used.

I have not returned, but am in touch with a couple of the players. How do I “get over” this maltreatment? I keep telling myself, “Be YOU, not them.”

— Dealt a Bad Hand DEAR DEALT: I assume that in poker, the “house” can set the rules. Your host seems to take this control to an extreme.

You have already quit the group, and so the stakes are low for you at this point. You

might as well make an effort to change the game. You can contact everyone (including the host) and offer to host an alternate/additional game — not on the same night as the original.

Players could then choose to play twice a month. People will either ante up, or they won’t.

Amy Dickinson writes the “Ask Amy” column. You can contact her via email: ASKAMY@amydickinson. com. Readers may send postal mail to Ask Amy, P.O. Box 194, Freeville, NY 13068.

You can also follow her on Twitter @askingamy or “like” her on Facebook.

Make a promise to yourself and stick to it. Whether it entails learning something new, taking a trip or volunteering to help the underprivileged, you will expand your horizons emotionally, spiritually and intellectually. If you give of yourself for the right reasons, happiness and satisfaction will be yours.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) — Don’t let go of your dreams.

Sketch out a plan and reach out to people who share your beliefs and concerns and can help you reach your objective.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — Do what has to be done and then relax. Now is not the time to stir up trouble, be stubborn or let emotional matters escalate into something you cannot control.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — The more direct you are about what you do, the less interference you’ll encounter. Gullibility will invite meddlers and people trying to entice you into something that’s better for them, not for you.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) — Branch out and try something different. Engage in talks and events that will teach you about other cultures or introduce you to someone or something you didn’t know.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — Rethink your next move. Do what’s not only good for you, but good for those you love. Selfcentered motivations should be discarded.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Take time to expand your ideas and figure out the best way to maintain integrity and keep the peace, while still being able to do your own thing.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) — Experience will lead to wisdom and the ability to make the right decision when faced with adversity. Take care of your responsibilities and move on to what you truly want to do.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) — Emotions may flare up, but if you put love, romance and peace first and foremost, you can turn any frown you encounter into a smile. Build memories instead of destroying them.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) — Don’t go overboard. You may feel like being excessive or giving into a temptation that someone dangles in front of your face, but consider the consequences before you indulge.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Keep an open mind when someone suggests a change.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) — An expression of gratitude will help you deflect any negativity that comes your way.

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PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) — Choose to be the best that you can be mentally, physically and emotionally. Always take the high road and give it your all, regardless of what others do.

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Gwinnett seeks money to study BRT route

By Curt Yeomans

Curt.yeomans @Gwinnettdailypost.com

Even though voters rejected a proposal to extend MARTA into Gwinnett last week, plans are moving forward to study a bus rapid transit corridor that would run parallel to Interstate 85 between Norcross and Duluth.

County commissioners agreed to apply for federal grant funding available through the Atlanta Regional Commission to help pay for a BRT corridor study connecting Jimmy Carter Boulevard with Sugarloaf Parkway. The study is expected to cost $800,000 with local officials putting up a local match to cover about half of the cost, according to county documents.

The Sugarloaf, Gwinnett Place and Gateway 85 community improvement districts are expected to contribute a combined $75,000 to help the county cover the $400,000 local match since the route would go through the three CIDs.

RECUSE From A1 was convicted in Gwinnett County — to look into the matter.

“From February 7th to 11th, 2019, various devices obtained solely for the purposes of investigation, including a device called a Wire Shark, were attached by Frank Karic, one of Ward’s forensic specialists, to Judge Schrader’s computer into the Gwinnett County Justice and Administration Center — with the Judge’s express permission,” the filing said. “…to ensure proper analysis, Ward put his computer forensic analyst, Defendant Edward E. Kramer, in charge of monitoring and analyzing the Wire Shark’s collected data.”

On Feb. 26, while Kramer was still monitoring Schrader’s computer and preparing “documentation for Judge Schrader to utilize in contacting federal authorities,” the filing said, he was arrested by Lawrenceville Police Department officers for allegedly photographing a young boy at a Lawrenceville doctor’s office.

Kramer bears the Georgia classification of “sexually dangerous predator” for molesting three teenage boys about two decades ago.

As part of Kramer’s February arrest, officers, along with investigators in Porter’s office, seized Kramer’s computers and cellphone to look for the alleged photos of the boy. That’s when Porter realized Kramer had access to the county computer network.

“In the course of doing a forensic analysis of all of his computers, looking for a picture of a child, we came across data that might have been related to Judge Schrader’s computer,” Porter told the Daily Post. “We took it one step further and looked at the text messages off (Kramer’s) phone, and it became clear that Judge Schrader had contacted Kramer. …

At that point, that’s when I called in the GBI.” The GBI began investigating on March 11, the agency confirmed to the Daily Post on Thursday.

Porter has since recused himself from that investigation.

In Friday’s filing, which included an affidavit, Porter said he confronted the judge about her computer being monitored, but “at no time during this meeting did Judge Schrader disclose that

MARTA From A1 referendum vote as a reason for pursuing the amendment.

“Whether we agree or disagree with the outcome from March 19, the voice of the voters should be respected,” the group wrote.

They further wrote, “This amendment to SB 200 applies only to the defeated ballot initiative from March 19. It does not apply to other counties or other transit options for

Gwinnett County Transportation Director Alan Chapman answers questions about transit during a visit to the county’s Transit Transfer Center on Satellite Boulevard in Duluth on March 15. On Tuesday, Chapman said the county is pursuing funding for a bus rapid transit corridor study for a route that would connect Jimmy Carter Boulevard and Sugarloaf Parkway via Satellite Boulevard and other roads. (Staff Photo: Curt Yeomans) “We believe it’s an important corridor for us to make some decisions on,” Gwinnett transportation director Alan Chapman said. “To do any construction on the corshe had any direct knowledge of this monitoring, or that she had hired Ward, Karic and Kramer to do so.”

The judge also recorded the meeting “through a video on her phone without (Porter’s) knowledge or consent,” Porter wrote in the affidavit.

On March 15, when the GBI interviewed Schrader, she accused Porter of hacking her computer, Porter’s affidavit said.

“Because Judge Schrader has alleged that I committed a criminal offense against her, I have grounds to reasonably question her impartiality in any criminal case that my office handles before her,” Porter’s affidavit said.

“This is further supported by the fact that Judge Schrader has surreptitiously recorded our private conversations without my knowledge or consent, while feigning ignorance of the very individuals she had employed and allowed to access the entire Gwinnett County Computer network.”

Porter also said because he and his staff have been interviewed by the GBI in connection with the agency’s investigation into Schrader giving an unauthorized person access to the county’s network, “we are therefore potential witnesses against Judge Schrader, should this investigation yield future criminal charges.”

“One cannot help but reasonably question a judge’s impartiality when the very lawyers who represent the State in her courtroom are also potentially witnesses in a future criminal case against her,” Porter wrote in the affidavit. “Based on the foregoing, I believe that Judge Kathryn Schrader has evinced a bias against me and my office through her pattern of behavior and allegations in an ongoing investigation. This bias taints all pending and future criminal cases that my office prosecutes before Judge Schrader during my tenure as District Attorney.”

If Schrader does not voluntarily recuse herself “in accordance with the Code of Judicial Conduct,” Porter’s Friday motion said, he is requesting that it be referred to another judge “to conduct a hearing into the allegations set forth in this motion and affidavit and render a decision as to whether Judge Schrader should be recused.”

Schrader did not immediately return the Daily Post’s request for comment by press time.

Gwinnett.”

Democrats who make up the majority of Gwinnett’s legislative delegation were caught off guard by the move, and blasted their colleagues during a press conference Friday afternoon.

“We’re looking at seven years of cooling off,” said state Rep. Dewey McClain, D-Lawrenceville. “What kind of cooling off could that be? You could be frozen in seven years.”

Among the reasons they were upset was that they said the Republicans in the county’s House delegation

ridor, we’d have to look for (other) funding sources moving forward.

“But with the federal dollars and the matching funds that the CIDs have committed, we

think it’s worthwhile to look at what could be done along Satellite and Brook Hollow to provide some alternatives to the 85 corridor.”

The proposed BRT route

would follow Brook Hollow Parkway to Indian Trail Road and then move over to Beaver Ruin Road before turning north along Satellite Boulevard. Most of the time, the BRT buses would be traveling in dedicated lanes that would begin north of Jimmy Carter Boulevard.

To put the corridor’s proposed endpoints in a more geographic perspective, it would connect the OFS site with the Infinite Energy Center. It would pass Gwinnett Place Mall along the way.

Technically, the county’s proposed multi modal station that would likely be built at the OFS site would be one endpoint. The Sugarloaf endpoint would technically be Gwinnett County Transit’s Sugarloaf Mills park and ride lot.

“It would run roughly parallel to I-85 on the north side,” Chapman said.

Chapman said the study would likely take at least a year and that county officials would prefer to have public input and community involvement.

Bus rapid transit corridors, including one connecting Jimmy Carter Boulevard with Sugarloaf Parkway, are a key part of the Connect Gwinnett Transit Development Plan that MARTA would have used as its blueprint for providing service to the county.

Chapman said the pursuit of this corridor study was never dependent on passage of the MARTA referendum though. The Atlanta Transit Link Authority, also known as The ATL, could still absorb parts of or all of the Connect Gwinnett plan into a regional transit development plan for metro Atlanta.

Getting the corridor study done now helps the county get closer to being “shovel ready,” a term in government circles that means a project is ready for construction. “(The study) just allows us to do some detail work on that corridor and if funding does become available at some point, we’d be closer to being able to move forward with it,” Chapman said.

INSPIRE From A1 said. “When they cut out the tumor, they have to cut a certain margin around it to get all those extra cells. Based on that margin, they would have paralyzed me from the waist down. My mom and my aunt did not like that answer, so they went online and researched everything and found this doctor in New York who was more equipped to deal with my situation.”

That doctor, who is based at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, was able to preserve Cobble’s ability to walk.

In the 25-hour surgery, however, doctors had to remove the lower half of Cobble’s spine and part of her pelvis, in addition to her sacrum. In their places are titanium rods and screws — which make Cobble’s X-rays “interesting” to look at, she said.

The surgery was only the beginning of the then-14year-old’s journey, though.

“I was in bed for six weeks ... and then I was in a wheelchair for the next six months before I was even allowed to start trying to walk,” Cobble said. “I then had to re-learn how to walk. I went through chemo, too ... and then we had to do radiation. That was 2006.”

In October 2007, Cobble was given bad news: The cancer was back, this time in her lung.

“Osteosarcoma can metastasize in your lungs, so it ended up in the lower lobe of my right lung,” she said. “I had to do surgery; you don’t really do chemo or anything for that. They just cut it out.

They had to remove the lower half of my lung.”

Within weeks of that surgery, doctors did another scan — the cancer had come back a third time, and was now in Cobble’s pulmonary artery.

“Because of that, based on its location, they had to remove the rest of my lung,” Cobble said. “I was worried, because if it came back again in my other lung, I’m basically done for. I was starting to freak out.”

Luckily — and perhaps because of an experimental treatment Cobble underwent at the University of Texas’ MD Anderson Cancer Center — the cancer didn’t return in Cobble’s lungs, and she was able to attend high school “like normal” for a year.

The normalcy didn’t last did not give them warning it was coming. Republicans hold a majority in the Georgia House of Representatives, but they became the minority in Gwinnett’s legislative delegation after the November 2018 election.

“When I was driving to the Capitol today, I got a text about this,” said state Rep. Shelly Hutchinson, D-Snellville. “That is completely disrespectful. It’s like we don’t exist. It’s like new voices don’t exist.”

Democrats had already criticized Republicans for pushing the recent MARTA

The lower half of Kennedy Cobble’s spine is gone; it was removed during surgery for a tumor in her tailbone. These rods and screws allow Cobble to stand and walk, though she uses a cane. (Special Photos)

“This time, they did this really super-strong chemo that just knocked me out ... The last time they gave it to me, I ended up being comatose — I could hear everything that was going on around me, but I couldn’t move at all,” Cobble said. “I ended up coming out of (the coma), but that was scary.”

The chemotherapy did the trick, however, and killed the last of the cancer cells while shrinking the tumor greatly, allowing doctors to remove the rest through surgery.

A decade later, Cobble is still cancer-free, and now living her dream of being a teacher — a dream she said was inspired by the educators who worked with her through her cancer battles.

“The teachers who came to visit me really did have an impact,” Cobble said. “They encouraged me, they worked with me; I mean, I wasn’t seeing my friends, I wasn’t at school and I felt like I was behind. They worked really hard with me, and got me more motivated and made it so that I wanted to succeed and keep going, and to not make that one year I took off into five.”

After graduating from high school in five years total, Cobble started at Georgia Gwinnett College, though she later transferred to the University of North Georgia’s Dahlonega campus.

She graduated last year and began teaching at Cedar Hill in August.

“I realized I could have an impact like (my teachers did for me) on others, and I realized people wanted to hear my story,” Cobble said. “I love little kids. I love teaching, period, and it just kind of felt like a calling for me. It was almost like that’s what my life was leading up to in a way. I’m now able to use my story to inspire the kids and motivate them.”

respectively. It would also keep it off the 2024 presidential election.

During the press conference, Democrats and Republicans in Gwinnett’s House delegation squared off with each other over the matter.

“For those who are on that piece of paper, watch out,” McClain told his Republican counterparts.

Barr later asked the Democratic legislators to elaborate on that statement, after the Republican lawmaker asserted that he and the other signers of

the amendment were not against transit.

“It doesn’t sound very cordial among colleagues and I wondered if you’d like to clarify your statement,” Barr said.

McClain deferred to state Rep. Brenda Lopez Romero, D-Norcross. She left no ambiguity about what the Democratic Party will do next.

“This is yet another issue that we’re going to present (to) our voters in November 2020 to make sure that we flip those seats,” Lopez Romero said.

Kennedy Cobble is pictures during her fourth battle with cancer. She is currently a fifth-grade teacher at Cobble Hill Elementary School. long, though.

“School had ended and summer had just started, and we were in Connecticut to see another doctor for a surgery just to deal with side effects and everything,” Cobble said. “There was something wrong with my leg; I was limping but thought I had just bumped it or something. But my mom was really worried, and she had it checked.”

Cobble’s mother’s worries were confirmed: The teen had yet another tumor. vote off the November 2018 ballot — a move that some proponents blamed for the referendum’s failure.

Turnout for the special election was nearly 17 percent. It was 64 percent in November.

Although the county could still go through The ATL and a T-SPLOST, blocking another MARTA vote until 2026 would keep the regional transit system off the ballot when President Donald Trump and Gov. Brian Kemp — both Republicans — are up for reelection in 2020 and 2022,

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County fighting Norcross annexation

By Curt Yeomans

curt.yeomans @gwinnettdailypost.com

Norcross’ bid to annex a large chunk of land between Jimmy Carter Boulevard and the Gwinnett-DeKalb county line has drawn a major opponent: Gwinnett County government.

The county is fighting efforts by the city to use legislation to annex 2.8 square miles sandwiched between Interstate 85, Buford Highway, the county line and Jimmy Carter Boulevard. The annexation would be pending voter approval.

City officials have said they can provide improved services and that the area is one of the few, if not only, viable option to accommodate Norcross’ plans for expansion and meeting demands for services. County officials, however, have raised concerns about the size of the annexation area as well as its impact on a tax allocation district in the area and tax revenues used to pay for police services.

“It is the largest annexation by any Gwinnett city in my memory and will have significant impacts on residents, businesses and property owners in the area proposed for annexation, for those currently in the City of Norcross and for the majority of all within Gwinnett,” county commission Chairwoman Charlotte Nash said in an email to the Daily Post.

“The County is opposed to this proposed annexation and has expressed that position to the Gwinnett Legislative Delegation.”

It is not clear if the annexation bill, House Bill 661, will make it out of the General Assembly by the end of Sine Die day — the last day of the 2019 legislative session — on Tuesday.

The state House of Representatives passed the bill Tuesday. The Georgia Senate then gave the legislation its first read in that chamber and assigned it to the Senate State and Local Governmental Operations Committee on Thursday.

Norcross Mayor Craig Newton defended the city’s request to annex the area, saying it can do a better job at providing services to the area than the county has done.

“While residents and businesses have faithfully paid their fair share of taxes, Gwinnett has historically focused its resources in other parts of the county,” Newton said. “Over the past several decades, this area has seen only modest investments to basic infrastructure.

“By becoming part of Norcross, they will see their tax dollars reinvested locally to repair neglected infrastructure and improve their quality of life, and will be represented by a government that consistently engages with its people to understand and respond to

This map provided by the city of Norcross shows its proposed 2.8-square-mile annexation area in red. County officials have expressed opposition to the proposal, which is currently pending in the Georgia Senate. (File Photo) their needs. “ One of the sticking points could be how annexation would impact Gwinnett’s plans for the OFS site that the county purchased at the end of 2018.

The OFS property is located at the Interstate-85 and Jimmy Carter Boulevard interchange, and a map released by the city indicates it is not included in the annexation area.

If the annexation happens,

Norcross would surround the OFS site on three sides. I-85 borders it on the fourth side.

The county’s recently adopted 2040 Unified Plan identifies the area around the OFS site as a “Regional Activity Center” with county officials eyeing the site as a likely location for a multi-modal transit hub with transit-oriented development. How annexation could impact those plans

came up briefly came up during priority-setting discussions at the county government’s strategic planning retreat in Athens on Friday.

“If it does get approved by the Legislature, there are a number of things that will trail behind that in terms of adjustments that we’re going to have to make to how we’re approaching economic development in that area,” Nash

said.

Nash said there is a tax allocation district in place in the area that the county was going to use as the basis for redevelopment of the OFS site.

“The annexation is going to mess things up related to that,” she said.

But, Newton said the city has an interest in what goes on in that area, particularly in how it would impact lower-income residents who live nearby. He highlighted the city’s participation in the Georgia Initiative for Community Housing program to come up with housing solutions for residents and work with AARP to help senior citizens with housing issues.

“The announcement of plans to locate a future multi-modal transit hub at the intersection of Jimmy Carter Boulevard and I-85 has brought newfound regional attention to our area,” he said. “We share in the excitement about potential expanded transit service and redevelopment. However, as the city most directly impacted by this proposal, we have a heightened awareness of the potential unintended consequences of major redevelopment.

“Throughout the metro area, we have seen gentrification lead to the displacement of long-time residents and businesses to make room for new development. Many of the residents in this area have low incomes and are particularly vulnerable to displacement.”

Middle school teacher who survived stabbing wants backpack ban

By Curt Yeomans

curt.yeomans @gwinnettdailypost.com

A Gwinnett County middle school teacher who survived a stabbing by one of her students is calling on the district to ban backpacks in schools like hers.

Trickum Middle School teacher Jennifer Guyre recently asked the Gwinnett County Board of Education to implement the ban in middle schools to make it harder for students to conceal weapons. Guyre was stabbed by one of her students after a class last October. The pupil also threatened a classmate after he stabbed the teacher, according to Guyre.

“I’m not sure how else we could prevent something like from happening,” Guyre said. “I mean if he did not have his backpack, he would not have been able to stab me with an eight-inch long butcher knife. Maybe with a three-inch long pocket knife that he kept in a pocket, but that would not have punctured my lung and sent me to the hospital for five days.”

For now, Guyre — who returned to Trickum Middle School three weeks after her attack and has resumed teaching eighthgrade language arts — just wants backpacks banned in the middle schools because she isn’t sure how the logistics would work in a high school setting.

Every student in Gwinnett middle schools has a locker that they can store belongings in, but high school students have to pay for lockers.

The ban Guyre is seeking would require students to keep the book bags in their lockers throughout the school day.

To back up her request earlier this month, Guyre opened up to school board members about the day she was stabbed by one of her students. She said she didn’t see the attack coming because she thought she had a good relationship with the student.

“His lawyer actually informed the DA that he liked me,” Guyre said.

Guyre was caught off guard when the student attacked her. She didn’t realize she had been stabbed at first.

“At first I thought he had just punched me, and

Gwinnett County commissioners and department heads discuss ideas for work that can be done on each of the county’s priorities during their strategic planning retreat at the University of Georgia in Athens on Friday. (Staff Photo: Curt Yeomans)

County officials mull transit revision

By Curt Yeomans

curt.yeomans @gwinnettdailypost.com

Trickum Middle School teacher Jennifer Guyre talks to an audience member after the March 21 Gwinnett County Board of Education meeting. During the meeting, Guyre shared her story of the day a student stabbed her after a class last October and called on board members to ban backpacks in middle schools. (Staff Photo: Curt Yeomans) I turned and leaned against a desk and held my chest and held my breath because it stole my breath away,” Guyre said. “Then I looked up and he had the knife in his hand in a back corner of the room.”

Guyre said the student then grabbed a female classmate and threatened to hurt her. At that point, Guyre focused on the female student rather than on her wound as long as she could.

“My focus at first was to keep everyone calm,” she said. “He mentioned she wouldn’t get hurt as long as no one left the room, and then it eventually changed to ‘as long as no one records this.’ Of course there were students recording it.

“I blacked out relatively quickly. Fortunately, some students had been able to get out of the room and go get help so two of my colleagues came and sat with me and then a third came in. She had taught the student (with the knife) previously and so she focused on him, trying to get him to give her the knife. The other two teachers escorted me out of the room because frankly they were afraid I was going to die in front of my students.”

Guyre said a student who was friends with the female student who was allegedly taken hostage refused to leave her friend’s side.

Meanwhile, the teacher who came into the room to focus on talking the armed student down was able to distract him long enough to

With the defeat of Gwinnett’s MARTA referendum earlier this month fresh on their minds, county leaders spent some of the second day of their strategic planning retreat in Athens talking about revisiting some of their plans for expanding transit on Friday.

The discussions on how to implement county priorities in the 2020 budget did not rise to the level of a full post-mortem on the MARTA vote, but transit came up immediately during discussions on mobility. Among the first transitrelated items discussed was a possible update of the Connect Gwinnett Transit Development Plan and a need to make decisions on transit funding.

The extensive transit plan, with everything from heavy rail and bus rapid transit to expanded local and paratransit bus service, would have been MARTA’s blueprint for providing service to Gwinnett.

“We’ve received a lot of input over the last several months (about the transit development plan),” Gwin-

nett transportation director Alan Chapman said. “While I will always believe it’s a very good plan, I think every plan — even a good one — needs to be revisited so if there are things we need to look at then we would definitely do that.”

Despite the defeat of the MARTA referendum on March 19, county leaders haven’t given up on trying to do something to expand transit in Gwinnett. There has been some talk about doing another transit vote, whether that be another referendum on joining MARTA or a 30-year transportation-related special purpose local option sales tax vote allowed under legislation that established the Atlanta Transit Link Authority, also known as The ATL. Other transit-related items that came up during the strategic planning retreat included making transit routes more efficient, looking at how human services programs — such as senior services — ties into transit and making it possible for residents to get around without needing a car also came up.

Chapman said one part of the transit plan that should be looked at early is the routes is

get the female student and her friend away from him.

At the same time, the school resource officer for Trickum Middle School was able to take the armed student into custody.

At the hospital, doctors had to insert a tube into Guyre’s chest to help her breathe.

“I had blood fluid around my lung because he punctured my lung so they had to insert a chest tube and drain it and reinflate my lung,” she said.

While there are various ways schools could try to keep weapons out of schools, Guyre said she would prefer a backpack ban over metal detectors.

“Schools already feel like prisons (so) we don’t need metal detectors,” she said.

Right now, it remains 0331_GDP_SUN_OBITS_OBITSv2 3/29/2019 3:50 PM Page 1 to be seen whether Gwinnett County Public Schools will implement a backpack ban, but it will require some investigating by district officials.

LAWRENCEVILLE Atlanta Journal and ConSuperintendent J. Alvin stitution, Gwinnett Daily Wilbanks said the district Post, the New York Post is open to looking into the and New York Times. She request. was fascinated with the “First, let me say that study of genealogy. At Ms. Guyre’s remarks were compelling and provided a the request of Ms. Harglimpse into her resilience rison, no services will be and her love of teaching and held. Survivors include her students,” Wilbanks said.

Audrey Harrison her brother Larry Har“The members of the School rison and wife Doris; Audrey Mae Harrison, Board and I appreciated her sister Avis Hawkins and age 68, of Lawrenceville comments. We are always her late husband Larry; passed away Thursday, open to hearing what peoniece Amanda Garrett and March 28, 2019. Audrey ple think and we will conhusband Richard; nephews was a graphic artist for sider her suggestion as we continue to look for ways the Forsyth County News, Brent Harrison and wife Anita, Glenn Harrison and to address school safety.”

an effort to straighten them out and make it easier to get around. He also said funding from the Atlanta Regional Commission is in place to increase frequency and time of day service for transit.

“That should help with ridership,” Chapman said.

Other non-transit related mobility issues that were raised included: completing an airport redevelopment plan; partnering with cities on trails and greenways; developing a trail maintenance program that is expected to come up in 2020 budget discussions; developing sustainable funding for transportation infrastructure; using local revenues to get state and federal resources for transportation projects; and installing directional signage pointing people to Briscoe Field from State Route 316.

Several updates to county commissioners were also suggested, including traffic and revenue potentials for the Sugarloaf Parkway extension project; a truck freight parking study; trail master plan implementation; and quarterly or half-year updates on transportation infrastructure projects of programs.

OBITUARIES wife Jessika; great nieces Morgan Garrett, Sydney Harrison and Chelsea Adams; great nephews Bristol Garrett, Christopher Harrison, Jacob Harrison and Nickolas Harrison and a host of other relatives.

She is preceded in death by her parents Amos and Flora Frost Harrison. Arrangements by Lawson Funeral Home, 4532 Hwy 53, Hoschton, GA, 30548, www.lawsonfuneralhome. org, 706-654-0966.

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Dacula man pleads guilty to hacking Apple accounts of rappers, NFL players

By Isabel Hughes

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A Dacula man recently pleaded guilty to logging into the Apple accounts of “high-profile professional athletes and musicians” and stealing their credit card information.

Kwamaine Jerell Ford, 27, pleaded guilty to one count of computer fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft in connection with his crimes, which began in March 2015, according to U.S. Attorney BJay Pak. “Ford tricked his victims into providing their Apple account passwords and stole sensitive, personal information from the accounts,” Pak said.

“After stealing credit card numbers belonging to several professional athletes, he brazenly spent thousands of dollars on personal expenses charged to the athletes’ accounts.”

According to Pak, Ford obtained login credentials for the victims’ Apple accounts “primarily” through a phishing scheme, a hacking trick in which a perpetrator sends a message that claims to be from a legitimate source.

“Ford primarily targeted college and professional athletes, including NBA and NFL players, and rappers in his scheme,” Pak said.

“Ford sent thousands of phishing emails to his intended victims from email accounts he set up to spoof legitimate Apple customer service accounts.”

Posing as an Apple customer support representa-

tive, Ford requested the victims send him their username and password or answers to security challenge questions, which Ford claimed was needed to reset their Apple accounts.

Dozens of victims provided their login credentials based on the phishing scheme, Pak said.

After acquiring the victims’ login credentials, Ford logged into the Apple accounts and attempted to take over the accounts.

“Specifically, he attempted to reset the account password, change the contact email account to an email address he controlled and alter the security challenge questions,” Pak said. “As a result, the victims could not log into their own accounts unless they contacted Apple by phone and proved their identity. Apple records showed hundreds of unauthorized logins to victims’ Apple accounts.”

While in control of the victims’ accounts, Ford found their credit card information, which he then used to pay for “thousands of dollars in air travel, hotel stays, other travel expenses, furniture and money transfers to online payment accounts under his control,” Pak said.

Ford was eventually caught, and in April 2018 was indicted on six counts each of wire fraud, computer fraud, access device fraud and aggravated identity theft.

He pleaded down the charges.

Sentencing is scheduled for June 24 before U.S. District Judge Timothy Batten Sr.

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Parkview baseball preps for spring break trip

By David Friedlander david.friedlander @gwinnettdailypost.com

For most people, a spring break trip to Florida is considered a welcomed vacation from months of hard work since the holidays.

For Parkview’s baseball team, which will be headed to the Sunshine State for three games during next week’s school break, vacation will take on a slightly different tone.

“The kids understand that, too,” said Parkview coach Chan Brown, who will take his Panthers (18-2) to Florida’s Gulf Coast for games with Venice on Tuesday, Sarasota on Wednesday and Tampa Jesuit on Thursday. “They want to have fun on these trips, but at the same time, they understand it’s more like a business trip for us. We’re

trying to go down there and make sure we’re prepared.

“We’ll practice every morning, and then we give them some time by themselves. We’ll hit the beach twice, probably, while we’re there, … but every morning we’re going to wake up and … make sure we’re working towards what we’re going there for.”

Indeed, the spring break trip to Florida has become and almost annual event for the Panthers. In fact, they’ve played the same three teams the past three seasons.

The purpose for the trip remains the same, as well. Brown is looking to give his team a major test with an eye not only on preparing it for the stretch drive of the Region 7-AAAAAAA regular season, but the upcoming Class AAAAAAA state playoffs.

The Panthers have already had a major test with its typically tough non-region schedule. In fact, the trio of games in Florida is the culmination of a very challenging week for them, having already beaten one formidable foe in Buford on Thursday and taken on another in Marist on Saturday.

“All three (Florida) teams are very well coached,” Brown said.

“They’re all highly-talented squads every year. We want to put ourselves against the most challenging opponents we can all year. This year, our non-region schedule, including Florida, is probably one of the hardest we’ve ever had.

“It’s all about getting us ready for the playoffs. It’s all about trying to put us in different situations. Parkview’s Jonathan French (26) reacts after hitting a double against Mill

Creek during last year’s state championship series at Parkview. (Photo:

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Gwinnett’s Bortles, Tiller to go into Hall of Fame

By David Friedlander

david.friedlander@gwinnettdailypost.com

Portland Trail Blazers forward Al-Farouq Aminu (8) dribbles against Atlanta Hawks guard Justin Anderson (1) during the second half at State Farm Arena on Friday. (Photos: Dale Zanine-USA Today Sports)

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Norcross’ Aminu gives veteran leadership in ninth NBA season

By Taylor Denman

taylor.denman@gwinnettdailypost.com

ATLANTA — Portland Trailblazers forward and Norcross High School graduate Al-Farouq Aminu drilled a deep 3-pointer with roughly three minutes remaining in the third quarter at State Farm Arena on Friday night.

The shot gave Portland an 88-67 lead over the Atlanta Hawks and all but clinched Portland’s sixth consecutive win and the second win to begin the Trailblazers’ fourgame road trip.

The tour from Chicago to Atlanta to Detroit then finally Minneapolis is the last long excursion of the regular season for Portland. The Trailblazers will have two more away games after this road trip ends, but they are both isolated.

As the grind of the 82-game NBA regular marathon season approaches the end before the intense sprint of the NBA playoffs begins, spending time with family without having to focus on travel can be refreshing.

His comfort showed on the court. That 3-pointer accounted for Aminu’s 15th point of the night in addition to his nine rebounds.

The game may have been more or less over, but Aminu’s night wasn’t. He finished with a double-double, his second in a row, with 17 points and 11 rebounds.

He was Portland’s second-leading scorer to Damian Lillard’s 36 against the Hawks.

Aminu’s offensive usage near the basket has trended upward since Portland’s second-leading scorer CJ McCollum will sit out team’s road trip. He was left behind with a lingering knee strain.

“I just continue to try to make the right plays,” Aminu said. “I understand the way the game is being played now, and losing a couple of guys we’ve had all season, I think as a team we’re doing a good job of being good vets and learning how the maneuver within a lot of different scenarios.”

Aminu has started every game he’s played in this season for the Trailblazers — all 74. Since making his NBA debut in 2010 he’s played in 80-or-more games in three different seasons. He’s on pace to pass that mark again with 74 starts and eight games remaining on the calendar. He’s already had his most active season since he started and played in all 82 games in the 2015-16 season.

Given that Randy Bortles and Jim Tiller have contributed to high school and amateur wrestling in multiple ways for more than 30 years, it’s fair to say that a good portion of their lives have been devoted to the sport.

That dedication will be recognized when both longtime Gwinnett County residents will be recognized as part of the 2019 induction class by the Georgia chapter of the National Hall of Fame next month.

Both are among seven total members of the class being inducted to the Lifetime Service Randy to Wrestling wing of the hall, as Bortles well as a separate recipient of the Medal of Courage award, all of whom will be recognized at the Honors Celebration Banquet on April 28 at Sonestra Gwinnett Place Atlanta.

And both men also boast more than 30 years of service to wrestling in Georgia as coaches, volunteers or officials, which make Jim them more than qualified for the Tiller honor.

“You have to be old to get this award,” quipped Bortles, a Sugar Hill resident who has spent 39 years in wrestling in the state, including seven years as a head coach at Wheeler, McIntosh and Newnan high schools, as well as See HALL OF FAME, A11

Brookwood grad Kell is new AD for LCA athletics From Staff Reports

game-to-game are part of the mature presence he brings to the Trailblazers’ locker room in his ninth NBA season.

“Around the league, we know how important his defense is for us,” Portland head coach Terry Stotts said. “He’s improved his ball-handling. The thing about Chief (Aminu) is you know you’re going to get a good effort, whether he scores or doesn’t score, it doesn’t affect how he plays the game.”

Aminu is not only proud to be one of the NBA’s ironmen. His recent offensive outputs have resulted in game-changing efforts for Portland. Aminu’s 15.8 points per 100 possessions heading into Friday night’s game against the Atlanta Hawks is the third-highest season average of his career. His 12.7 rebounds per game is a career high.

Aminu’s 160 free throw attempts and 138 free throws made are also a career high. Against Atlanta, Aminu got to the line several times early in the first quarter and shot 6-for-6 from the line overall.

Aminu signed a four-year, $30 million contract with Portland in July 2015. That’s a life-changing deal, even for the major of NBA players. He’ll be a free agent at

Loganville Christian Academy went to North Carolina for its new athletic director, but still found an administrator very familiar with the area.

Gwinnett native Andrew Kell was hired recently to take over the athletic program at the Walton County private school, which is located less than 15 miles southeast from Kell’s alma mater, Brookwood. He begins work June 1 at LCA, a Georgia Independent School Association program.

“It’s something I’m really excited about, this opportunity God’s put in front of me coming back closer to friends and family, in an area I grew up in, an area I’m familiar with,” Kell said. “I’m looking forward to the opportunity. I’m very Andrew Kell excited about taking the position, knowing that a lot of the details and those kind of things I’ll be learning as I go. I know I’ve got a great administrative team around me that will support me and my family.”

Kell and his three siblings all played soccer at Brookwood, where he won a co-state championship as a senior in 2001. After four years of playing soccer at Wingate University (N.C.), he began a coaching career outside of Georgia for the past 14 years at the high school and club levels in soccer and volleyball.

After studying Spanish and business, he planned to work in international business, but found a different path when he was offered a job as a Spanish teacher and coach at Hickory Grove Christian, a Charlotte school where he remained for six years. He worked the past eight years

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Atlanta Hawks forward DeAndre’ Bembry (95) goes to the basket against Portland Trail Blazers forward Al-Farouq Aminu (8) during the first half at State Farm Arena.

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I understand the way the game is being played now, and losing a couple of guys we’ve had all season, I think as a team we’re doing a good job of being good vets and learning how the maneuver within a lot of different scenarios.

Al-Farouq Aminu, Portland Trailblazers forward

“It just shows durability,” Aminu said.

“It shows consistency.”

Aminu is in a pivotal strategic position in the Trailblazer’s pick-and-roll offense as Portland’s No. 5 in the starting lineup.

He sets screens that give Lillard the chance to drive to the hoop or give him enough space for a pull-up jump shot.

Aminu’s preparation and his consistency

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Texas Tech upsets Gonzaga Parkview 75-69 for trip to Final Four downs Marist

Field Level Media Third-seeded Texas Tech made history Saturday, using its trademark sticky defense to shut down top-seeded Gonzaga’s high-scoring offense and produce a 75-69 win in the West Regional final at Honda Center in Anaheim, Calif.

Jarrett Culver scored 19 points to pace the balanced Red Raiders, who reached the Final Four for the first time in school history. Matt Mooney also hit for 17, including two foul shots with 19.7 seconds left that gave them a four-point lead.

Zach Norvell’s putback with 11.0 seconds remaining pulled the Bulldogs within two points, but Josh Perkins was called for a flagrant 1 foul when he reached across the end line and fouled Mooney on the inbounds pass.

Davide Moretti, who finished with 12 points, canned two foul shots to up the margin to four. Culver added two more free throws with 9.3 seconds on the clock to ice it.

Rui Hachimura scored a gamehigh 22 points for Gonzaga, which was held 21 points under its average and made only 43.1 percent from the field, 10 percent below its average. Brandon Clarke chipped in 18 points and 12 rebounds, while Perkins scored 16 points and Norvell hit for 10.

Texas Tech will play either Duke or Michigan State on April 6 in Minneapolis.

The first half was played on Gon-

Huff leaving Duluth for Bears hoops From Staff Reports Duluth is in the market for a new head boys basketball coach.

Holy Innocents’ announced this week that Huff has been hired to lead its boys basketball program. Both of the Bears’ head coaches now have ties to Gwinnett — Cabral Huff their girls basketball coach, Nichole Dixon, was hired away from Wesleyan.

Huff was Duluth’s head coach for the past three seasons, joining the Wildcats after a stint as an assistant coach at Alcorn State University. He was previously head coach at another Atlanta private school, St. Francis, from 2008-14.

Huff, who played high school basketball in Atlanta at Mays and in college at Morehouse, led Duluth to the state playoffs each of his three seasons as head coach.

His record with the Wildcats was 53-39.

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From Staff Reports LILBURN — Parkview baseball started its spring break with a win over the No. 4 Class AAAA team in Georgia.

The Panthers (19-2) beat Marist 12-2 on Saturday afternoon and enjoyed a lively offensive game.

Allan Del Castillo was 2-for-2 with two home runs and five RBIs. Jonathan Ponder launched a three-run homer. Jonathan French was 2-for-4, Mauri Miller was 3-for-3 and Sam Smith was 2-for-4 with two RBIs. Xander Stephens started on the mound and threw five innings, allowing eight strikeouts and three walks in a scoreless outing.

Wesleyan 10, Galloway 0

Texas Tech Red Raiders guard Davide Moretti (25) and guard Jarrett Culver (23) celebrate the victory against Gonzaga Bulldogs in the championship game of the west regional of the 2019 NCAA Tournament at Honda Center on Saturday. (Photo: Richard Mackson-USA Today Sports) zaga’s terms as it got the faster pace it preferred. The score didn’t quite match the tempo until about 12 minutes into the game, when the Bulldogs started making shots to erase a five-point Texas Tech lead.

Norvell’s 3-pointer with 7:07 left in

the half gave Gonzaga a 27-26 lead, and the teams went back-and-forth for the half’s remainder. Clarke got the last say with a dunk 14 seconds before intermission, enabling the Zags to take a 37-35 lead into the locker room.

Homers power Phillies past Braves 8-6 High-priced offseason acquisitions Bryce Harper and J.T. Realmuto hit their first home runs for Philadelphia and sparked the Phillies to an 8-6 win over the visiting Atlanta Braves on Saturday.

Realmuto ripped a tworun shot into the center field bleachers that put the Phillies ahead to stay in the fifth inning and Harper hammered a 465-foot solo homer in the seventh.

Maikel Franco was 2-for-3 with three RBIs and homered for the second straight game. Franco plated an insurance run in the eighth when his welllocated fly ball bounced off the glove of first baseman Freddie Freeman for a single and allowed Cesar Hernandez to score all the way from first.

Six of Philadelphia’s nine hits were for extra bases.

The winning pitcher was Adam Morgan (1-0), who retired the only batter he faced in the fifth.

The losing pitcher was rookie Wes Parsons (0-1), who surrendered the homer to Realmuto.

Atlanta’s offense was

paced by Freeman, who went 4-for-5 with two doubles and two RBIs. Dansby Swanson and Charlie Culberson each hit tworun homers, their first of the year.

Neither starting pitcher figured in the decision.

Atlanta rookie Bryse Wil-

to focus on athletic administration and back away from coaching at Loganville Christian.

“I think the athletic program right now (at LCA) is in a good spot,” Kell said. “I want to continue what’s going on there. My goal would be to continue to help build the athletic program and point the kids toward Christ. As

a Christian school, that’s one of our main goals. The classroom and athletics more opportunities to pour into these kids.”

Kell’s brother works in Cincinnati, but the rest of his family, including seven nieces and nephews, live in the Gwinnett area. Kell and his wife Sara have four sons, ages 7, 5, 3 and 1.

he’s not just reliable enough to be ready for every game, but he still has the upside of an From A10 above-average NBA starting big man. Next year will be his the conclusion of the 2018- age 29 season. He says he can 19 season. find the strength and will for Aminu seems to have six more four-year contracts proven in his recent campaign if they’ll continue to pay him.

“You just eventually get really good at being a pro,” Aminu said. “Thankfully, I’ve been in one sport for a while, and I’ve been able to get a good routine, and the staff has done a really good job of, when I first got here, helping me find my routine.”

KELL From A10 at Metrolina Christian in Indian Trail, N.C., initially as a Spanish teacher before transitioning to assistant athletic director.

He coached soccer and volleyball at Metrolina, but plans

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done … post accident, we want to put you in for lifetime service,’ which is really an honor. It’s really special because it’s kind of a culmination of everything you did and gave back to the sport.

“It had to be the coaching (that has been the most rewarding aspect of his career). There’s a lot of satisfaction in the refereeing side and there’s a lot of satisfaction in volunteering and starting programs, and all that kind of stuff we were involved with, but it’s got to be the coaching.

The camaraderie with the kids and the other coaches and referees, it’s hard to duplicate.”

Tiller’s contributions lie mostly on the coaching side, having spent 33 years as a head coach or assistant at Brookwood, North Gwinnett and Collins Hill high schools in Gwinnett County, as well as Heritage High School in neighboring Rockdale County.

He also served as president of the North Metro Takedown Club for five years in the 1980s and four more years as president of the Gwinnett Takedown Club.

But like Bortles, Tiller’s fondest memories come

from coaching, and specifically helping start programs art Brookwood and Collins Hill when those schools opened up.

“Twice, I’ve coached at places that have started programs from scratch,” said Tiller, who resides in Flowery Branch, and who coached 30 state champions and 132 state placers throughout his career. “I was (an assistant) at Brookwood when it opened and (an assistant at) Collins Hill when it opened. It was especially gratiying at Collins Hill to take a (program) from scratch and have the success that we had.”

Both Tiller and Bortles also have ties to longtime coach, and Hall of Famer himself, Cliff Ramos, who is currently undergoing treatment for pancreatic cancer.

They’re both hopeful that Ramos will be there to help them celebrate their honors, which both said would mean a lot to them.

“I worked with Cliff Ramos, and was his assistant for 15 years,” Tiller said.

“We had a memorable night when his son (Taylor) won a state championship. …

That’s a memory that really sticks out in my mind. … He has assured me he’s going to be there.”

Philadelphia Phillies right fielder Bryce Harper (3) hits a solo home run in the seventh inning against the Atlanta Braves at Citizens Bank Park. (Photos: James Lang-USA Today Sports)

Hrustich and James Whitmer of late.

While Brown is confident the Panthers can get healthier closer to the playoffs, he is interested to see how other players step up to make the team even more dangerous for the postseason.

“We’re kind of banged up right now,” Brown said. “Del Castillo missed about 12 or 13 games, but now he’s back.

Whitmer and Hrustisch have been out. So we’re just trying to build as much depth as we can.”

Some teams are small ball teams. Some teams are hit and run teams. Some teams are home run-hitting teams. … So we’re trying to put our team in every situation they can be put in when we hit the playoff run. … Right now, our kids are playing well and are playing with confidence. …

We’re in a good stretch playing some really good teams

Pivetta for a run in the first inning when Freeman doubled home Ender Inciarte, who opened the game with a triple. Atlanta made it 3-0 in the second inning when Swanson lined a two-run homer into the left-field seats.

Philadelphia got a run

back in the bottom of the second. Rhys Hoskins led off with a double and scored on Realmuto’s single to center field.

The Phillies took a 4-3 lead in the fourth inning when Hernandez tripled home Odubel Herrera.

Franco followed with a towering two-run home run that hit the foul pole, his second homer of the season.

Freeman evened the game at 4-4 in the fifth when he beat the shift and delivered an RBI single to left, allowing Inciarte to score.

Atlanta manager Brian Snitker said Saturday that injured starters Mike Foltynewicz (elbow) and Kevin Gausman (shoulder tendinitis) and left-handed reliever A.J. Minter (left shoulder) may be back sooner than expected.

Foltynewicz, an All-Star last season, is scheduled to throw 80 pitches for the Triple-A Gwinnett affiliate on Thursday. Gausman is expected to be activated for the Miami series next weekend, with Minter also a possibility.

The teams play the finale of the three-game opening series today.

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and going into they playoffs.

That’s going to help us.”

Parkview will also take the opportunity in this spring break trip to test its depth.

While the Panthers have put together another solid rotation with right-handers Xander Stephens and Miles Garrett and lefty Cameron Orr, plus a lineup led by Super Six catcher Jonathan French, infielder Allan Del Castillo and brothers Makenzie and Max Pate, they have had to deal with injuries to other key players like Steven

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Gonzaga hit 50 percent of its field goals and owned the boards, 19-10, but the Red Raiders stayed in contention by converting nine turnovers into 10 points. They were also proficient from the 3-point line, making 5 of 13.

PEACHTREE CORNERS — Wesleyan (14-4, 7-0) benefitted from three RBIs from both Cameron Dinney and Will Bryson in its win on Saturday over Galloway.

Dinney was 2-for-2 with a double and Bryson was 2-for-3 with a double.

Griffen Massey pitched four innings and struck out for batters. He was charged with four hits. John Kiersznowski struck out three in one inning on the mound.

son worked 3 1/3 innings and allowed four runs on five hits with four walks and three strikeouts. Philadelphia’s Nick Pivetta worked 4 2/3 innings and gave up four runs on eight hits with one walk and four strikeouts.

The Braves jumped on

HALL OF FAME From A10 five years as an assistant at Mountain View. “It’s kind of surreal in a lot of ways in that I’ve already been inducted for the Medal of Courage (twice).”

Indeed, this isn’t first time Bortles, who also helped organize the Metro Atlanta Wrestling Officials Association in 1994 and served as an official for 18 years, has been honored by the Hall.

He was the recipient of the Georgia chapter’s Medal of Courage in 2005 and the national Medal of Courage in 2016 as he has continued to contributed to wrestling coaching and officiating while still recovering from injuries sustained in a serious motorcycle wreck in 2002.

“In my own mind, I was kind of thinking, ‘It just doesn’t get any better than that,’ said Bortles, who currently heads the Georgia High School Association’s wrestling officials evaluation program. “But afterwards, they came and said, ‘Of all the things that you’ve

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LOCAL COLUMNIST|DARRELL HUCKABY

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All the comforts of home 8,000 miles away

spent the last two weeks of February in Africa. In Tanzania, we visited Tangire National Park as well as the Ngorongoro Crater and the Serengeti, and for good measure, we went to Nairobi, Kenya and Zimbabwe, Zambia and made a brief stop in Johannesburg, South Africa. Africa was the fifth continent for my tour company in less than six years of existence, and we have made it to all 50 states and now 40 countries so far.

Now, I told you all that to tell you this: In every place we went — and every place we have gone on our marvelous run of local, state, national and worldwide travel — every place, understand — we have encountered two products that proudly carry the label Huckaby Made in the USA. Actually, they don’t have that label, but every drop, every ounce, every particle of these particular elixirs, as it were, are made, not only in this country, but in two places in this country that are so small and so isolated, you would have had to have been really good at reading a map to find these places before everybody carried around a GPS in their phone or had one built into their personal vehicles.

What they had, everywhere we went in Africa, was Tabasco hot pepper sauce and Jack Daniel’s whiskey. Every single table I sat at — bar none for two weeks — had those little cologne bottles of redpepper vinegar and salt, and every bar at every restaurant offered Old No. 7, Tennessee’s favorite export.

Now, you may or may not know that every drop of Tabasco sauce in the world is produced on Avery Island, near New Iberia, Louisiana— population 7,000. Every drop. All the peppers that the wonderful concoction is made from used to be grown on the island. Now, they outsource the growing of most of the peppers to South America, but the plants are grown from seeds harvested right there in Louisiana and brought back home for production.

When I was a boy, growing up in Porterdale, we kept a napkin rack on our kitchen table — 24/7 — along with a little jar of toothpicks, salt and pepper shakers, and a bottle of Tabasco. My daddy would put it on just about everything he ate. We don’t keep anything but a bud vase with fresh flowers on our kitchen table now, but the Tabasco is never far away. I don’t use it as much as my daddy did, but I like it a right smart, and it was quite comforting to find it in Africa, 8,000 miles from home.

Jack Daniel’s, of course, has been made in Lynchburg, Tennessee, for the past 153 years.

Lynchburg is smaller than Avery Island and has only around 6,500 inhabitants. You can buy Jack Daniel’s whiskey at the distillery there, but you’d better not drink it inside the county limits. Them folks around there

I couldn’t help but feel a little pride for my region — the American South — knowing that products made in two such small towns were known all around the world. I went in my local grocery store Thursday and couldn’t even buy a box of Cracker Jack to watch the opening day of baseball season. Of course, it originated in Chicago, so there you go.

been voting dry and drinking wet for nigh onto 200 years.

Being so far from home and a bit homesick, and also having a lot of chest congestion and a bad cough, I convinced myself to belly up to the bar one night and order a shot of that Jack Daniel’s — mixed with a little CocaCola, which originates here in Georgia but is bottled everywhere. This was strictly for medicinal purposes, understand, and before you say a word, I would have ordered it with lemon juice and honey over crushed ice, the way my mama fixed it when I was sick as a boy, but I knew they didn’t have that other stuff. They had Co-Cola, understand. I did have to beg for more than one cube of ice.

I was blown away by the price. Four American dollars. That was all. Four dollars for a Jack-and-Coke at a hotel bar 8,037 miles from Lynchburg, Tennessee I bought one at Honky Tonk Central in Nashville one time and paid 10 bucks. Lynchburg is just 73 miles from Nashville. That don’t make a lick of sense.

But I wasn’t complaining, and it was, of course, purely medicinal in nature.

I couldn’t help but feel a little pride for my region — the American South — knowing that products made in two such small towns were known all around the world. I went in my local grocery store Thursday and couldn’t even buy a box of Cracker Jack to watch the opening day of baseball season. Of course, it originated in Chicago, so there you go.

I can’t wait for my next trip to see what gastronomic pleasures await. Perhaps I’ll go to Chattanooga and get a Moon Pie, or Nashville for a Goo Goo Cluster. Only the shadow and Shane Clayton know, but wherever the trail takes us, I know two items they will have on-hand.

Darrell Huckaby is an author in Rockdale County. Email him at dhuck008@gmail.com.

COLUMNIST|DICK YARBROUGH

Trying to explain life’s challenges to someone with icing on their face

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is not easy

sat down recently for a chat with my twin great-granddaughters, Hadley Ann Yarbrough and Harper Grace Yarbrough, on the occasion of their first birthday. I thought this would be a good time to share some of my life experiences and to gain some perspective on what their generation is thinking about the world in which they find themselves.

The conversation was delayed briefly while they smeared birthday cake icing on their faces and chewed on their presents, some of which were not intended to be chewable but, hey, that’s the younger generation for you.

After a few spit-ups and a Yarbrough couple of poops, the twins were ready to get down to business. I wanted to take it slow. As brilliant as these two seem to be, it is obvious they have much work to do before they master the English language. This is a challenge they share with their great-grandfather, who is still grappling with who-vs-whom and that “I-before-E” stuff.

I asked the twins how they viewed Donald Trump’s performance as president.

Hadley Ann was ready for that one. “Blah!

Blah! Blah!” she said with icing on her face. An interesting observation from one so young, however, when you think about the amount of time the Leader of the Free World spends on his Tweet machine obsessing over what some irrelevant jerk in Hollywood thinks about him, “Blah!

Blah! Blah!” does seems appropriate.

Out of the mouth of babes.

We were treading on dangerous territory here. President Trump’s supporters aren’t overly endowed with a sense of humor and take any perceived criticism of the man up-close and personal. “Pfft!” Harper Grace said and then spit up. They can’t say I didn’t warn them.

Admittedly, while they do have a few years before they can register to vote — and there is that whole learning to read and write thing that awaits them — I am curious as to what their political leanings might be. Hopefully, they won’t be wildeyed, fire-breathing wingnuts on either side of the political spectrum.

I told them that I am not beloved by either side because I don’t like illegal aliens traipsing into our country like they own the place and making us learn to speak their language instead of learning ours. At the same time, I don’t like guns everywhere except under the Gold Dome

or private school vouchers because legislators are too lazy to fix the problems surrounding public schools. I’m just not a wingnut kind of guy.

My all-time political hero is the late Gov. Carl Sanders, a Democrat. I also admire former Sen. Sam Nunn, another Democrat, as well as the late Sen. Paul Coverdell, a Republican, and Zell Miller, who started out as a staunch Democrat but ended up acting like a Republican.

Clearly, my political tastes are ecumenical.

As I extolled the virtues of these great men, Hadley Ann smeared more icing on her face and Harper Grace began chewing on some of the gift-wrapping paper.

I got the feeling they were not listening to what I was trying to tell them. I hope this doesn’t mean we are raising a couple of potential wingnuts in the Yarbrough household with a propensity for smearing icing on their faces and eating giftwrapping paper. Wingnuts can be weird.

You should see my mail.

I said my middle-of-the-road approach to politics should serve as an exemplary standard by which to shape their own political philosophy. They could certainly do worse than having their great-grandfather as their role model. “Blah! Blah!

Blah!” Hadley Ann said as she applied more birthday cake icing to her face. “Pfft!” said Harper Grace. I take this to mean they have yet to be convinced.

As they were crawling across the floor to parts unknown, I reminded them that the future of the world rests on them and their generation. This is a staggering responsibility and one they should take very seriously. Life is about more than smearing birthday cake icing and eating gift-wrapping paper. They should thank their lucky stars they have a greatgrandfather around to guide them on the perilous journey that lies ahead of them. “Blah! Blah! Blah!” said Hadley Ann. “Pfft!” said Harper Grace, who promptly spit up.

The twins may think they know it all right now, but just wait. One of these days they are going to have to deal with whovs-whom and all that “I before E” stuff.

Then they will discover the old man had been right all along. Pfft!

You can reach Dick Yarbrough at dick@dickyarbrough.com; at P.O. Box 725373, Atlanta, Georgia 31139 or on Facebook at www.facebook.com/dickyarb.

COLUMNIST|MARC THIESSEN

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The Trump-Russia collusion hall of shame

ASHINGTON — The news that special counsel Robert Mueller “did not find that the Trump campaign, or anyone associated with it, conspired or coordinated with the Russian government” has left a lot of people in Washington with a lot of explaining to do.

Put aside the rogues’ gallery of reporters and pundits who assured us that Donald Trump had conspired with Vladimir Putin to steal the presidency. What is most insidious are those who did have access to classified intelligence and led Americans to believe that they had seen what we could not: actual evidence of TrumpRussia collusion.

Recall that in 2016, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., released a letter to FBI Director James Comey claiming the FBI had proof of Trump-Russia collusion. “In my communications with you and other top officials in the national security community, it has become clear that you possess explosive information about close ties and coordination between Donald Trump, his top advisors, and the Russian government,” Reid declared. When asked what information Reid was referring to, a spokesman said, “There have been classified briefings on this topic. That is all I can say.”

Trump has called for House this campaign sought to collude with Intelligence Committee Chairman a hostile foreign power to subvert Adam Schiff, D-Calif., to resign. He America’s democracy.” and recently, is absolutely correct. Schiff repeatthe committee’s vice chairman, Sen. edly said that his committee had dug Mark Warner, D-Va., declared that up “plenty of evidence of collusion “enormous amounts of evidence” or conspiracy.” In March 2017, he exist of collusion between Trump said on “Meet the Press,” “I can’t and Russia and that “there’s no one go into the particulars, but there is that could factually say there’s not Thiessen more than circumstantial evidence plenty of evidence of collaboration now” and last May he told ABC that Trump’s or communications between Trump OrgaRussia conspiracy is of “a size and scope nization and Russians.” Except for Muelprobably beyond Watergate.” ler, of course.

Schiff is a disgrace. But he is not alone.

These comments by people with access Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., a member of to intelligence were shameful. But the most the Intelligence Committee, said, “In our sinister of all is John Brennan, who used investigation, we saw strong evidence of his authority as former CIA director to sugcollusion” and declared Trump an agent gest that Trump was a traitor and a com“working on behalf of the Russians.” House promised Russian asset. After Trump’s Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Helsinki summit, Brennan declared “he Nadler, D-N.Y., claimed, “It’s clear that is wholly in the pocket of Putin.” When the campaign colluded, and there’s a lot challenged by Chuck Todd on “Meet the of evidence of that.” Sen. Richard Blumen- Press,” Brennan stood by his assessment. thal, D-Conn., a member of the Judiciary “I called [Trump’s] behavior treasonous, Committee, assured us last year that “the which is to betray one’s trust and aid and evidence is pretty clear that there was col- abet the enemy, and I stand very much by lusion between the Trump campaign and that claim.” the Russians.” Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., a This month, MSNBC’s Lawrence member of the Intelligence Committee, said, O’Donnell told Brennan this investiga“There is no longer a question of whether tion was “developing while you were still

on the job” and asked, “Did you see enough at that stage to believe … that that would result in indictments?” Brennan replied, “I thought at the time there was going to be individuals who were going to have issues with the Department of Justice. Yes.” In a New York Times op-ed, he wrote that “Trump’s claims of no collusion are, in a word, hogwash.” Now, Brennan feigns contrition. “I don’t know if I received bad information, but I think I suspected there was more than there actually was,” he said, adding, “I am relieved that it’s been determined there was not a criminal conspiracy with the Russian government over our election.”

Hogwash. He wanted it to be true, and he relied on his CIA credentials to convince Americans that it was. That is a violation of the public trust. Trump was right to revoke Brennan’s security clearance. He is among the worst of the worst, the Trump-Russia collusion hall of shame. We have long since passed the point where Americans expect objectivity from the press. But we should hold our elected and appointed officials handling sensitive national security issues to a higher standard.

Follow Marc A. Thiessen on Twitter, @marcthiessen.

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PUBLIC STORAGE # 27313, 1964 Rockbridge Road, Stone Mountain, GA 30087, (404) 480-5214 Time: 01:00 PM A001–Christopher, Teagle; A005–Lawrence, Clifford; A008–Lawson, Malcolm; A019–Jefferson, Keoni; B016–Mlilo, Iain; C033– GRAY, DEWAYNE; C039– Fleming, Delroy; C043–Holcomb, Randy; C051–Willis, Andre Arnold; D002–Fractious, Tracy; D051–Carter, Rashanda; D053–Elmer, Ravee; D061–Sharp, Stephen P; E017–Hamlet, Tomika; E070–Combs, Sarah; E072– Gamble, Desmond; F008– Dailey, Shavonda; F027–Harvey, Angelita; G018–Lawson, Malcolm Public sale terms, rules, and regulations will be made available prior to the sale. All sales are subject to cancellation. We reserve the right to refuse any bid. Payment must be in cash or credit card-no checks. Buyers must secure the units with their own personal locks. To claim tax-exempt status, original RESALE certificates for each space purchased is required.

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PUBLIC STORAGE # 28149, 3055 Jones Mill Road, Norcross, GA 30071, (678) 497-0956 Time: 09:30 AM 101–Stokes, Noel; 106– White, Frank; 193–Holmes, Michael; 223–Brown, Beverly; 288–Whitehead, Tatum; 314–washington, harold; 384–Jones, Lauren; 545F– Schnitzler, Elizabeth; 58– Fuller, Stephen PUBLIC STORAGE # 28150, 6770 Dawson Blvd, Norcross, GA 30093, (678) 306-1651

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in Plat Book 43, Page 170, Gwinnett County, Georgia Records, to which plat reference is imade for a more detailed description The debt secured by said Security Deed has been and is hereby declared due because of, among other possible events of default, failure to pay the indebtedness as and when due and in the manner provided in the Note and Security Deed. The debt remaining in default, this sale will be made for the purpose of paying the same and all expenses of this sale, as provided in the Security Deed and by law, including attorney’s fees (notice of intent to collect attorney’s fees having been given).

Said property is commonly known as 2640 Rock Point Ln, Snellville, GA 300398083 together with all fixtures and personal property attached to and constituting a part of said property, if any.

To the best knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the party (or parties) in possession of the subject property is (are): Takesha D McGill or tenant or tenants.

PennyMac Loan Services, LLC is the entity or individual designated who shall have full authority to negotiate, amend and modify all terms of the mortgage.

PennyMac Loan Services, LLC Loss Mitigation 3043 Townsgate Road #200, Westlake Village, CA 91361 1-866-549-3583 Note, however, that such entity or individual is not required by law to negotiate, amend or modify the terms of the loan.

Said property will be sold subject to: (a) any outstanding ad valorem taxes (including taxes which are a lien, but not yet due and payable), (b) unpaid water or sewage bills that constitute a lien against the property whether due and payable or not yet due and payable and which may not be of record, (c) the right of redemption of any taxing authority, (d) any matters which might be disclosed by an accurate survey and inspection of the property, and (e) any assessments, liens, encumbrances, zoning ordinances, restrictions, covenants, and matters of record superior to the Security Deed first set out above.

The sale will be conducted subject to (1) confirmation that the sale is not prohibited under the U.S. Bankruptcy Code; and (2) final confirmation and audit of the status of the loan with the holder of the Security Deed. Pursuant to O.C.G.A. Section 9-13-172.1, which allows for certain procedures regarding the rescission of judicial and non-judicial sales in the State of Georgia, the Deed Under Power and other foreclosure documents may not be provided until final confirmation and audit of the status of the loan as provided immediately above.

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PUBLIC NOTICE GWINNETT COUNTY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM PROPOSED CHANGE IN USE OF CDBG ASSISTED PROPERTY The Gwinnett Community Development Program announces its intent to change the use of a building located at 405 N Perry St, Lawrenceville, GA 30046. Gwinnett County through its Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) invested a total of $413,697.22 (four hundred, thirteen thousand, six hundred, ninety seven dollars and twenty two cents) for the new construction of a daycare center in 1993. To maintain compliance with CDBG regulations, Gwinnett County is proposing to change the use of this building to a Small Business Resource Center with management and oversight through the Gwinnett County Office of Economic Development. The public is invited to comment on this proposed decision.

A Public Hearing will be held to receive citizen input for the Change in Use of property funded with CDBG: Public Hearing Location

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The public comment period for the amendment referenced above is March 31, 2019 – April 29, 2019. A summary of all comments received during the public comment period will be provided to the Gwinnett County Board of Commissioners.

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If you think your rights have been violated, please contact the Gwinnett County Community Development Program, One Justice Square, 446 West Crogan Street, Suite 275, Lawrenceville, GA 30046-2439; Telephone 678-518-6008; Fax 678-518-6071; Email gchcd@gwinnettcounty.com.

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Section 504 – Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990 [ADA], As Amended Gwinnett County does not discriminate on the basis of disability in the admission or access to, or treatment or employment in, its programs or activities. Any requests for reasonable accommodations required by individuals to participate in any open meeting, program or activity of the Gwinnett County Community Development Program should be directed to Gwinnett County Community Development Program, One Justice Square, 446 West Crogan Street, Suite 275, Lawrenceville, GA 30046-2439. Telephone 678.518.6008; Fax 678.518.6071; email gchcd@gwinnettcounty.com.

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Looks like we’re either going to be invading a country or making great beer.

Wayne Baxter, co-owner of Monkey Wrench Brewing

Joe Dreher and Wayne Baxter are the owners of Monkey Wrench Brewing in Suwanee. (Special Photo:Jim Simpson)

Throwing a wrench in things Another new brewery coming to Suwanee

By Jim Simpson Staff Correspondent

Warm weather is coming, and along with it a new brewery for Suwanee. Set to open this summer, Monkey Wrench Brewing is gearing up in a 16,000-square-foot building on Martin Farm Road, a short jog from the Suwanee Creek Greenway or a leisurely bike ride from Town Center Park.

Years in the planning, founder and brewmaster Wayne Baxter has taken his time to do things right.

Since 2012, he and partner Joe Dreher have carefully marketed the brand, attending festivals throughout Gwinnett and the Atlanta metro area, winning multiple homebrew awards

yearly since 2013 at the Peach State Brewoff and the Atlanta Winter Beer Festival, among others.

“Doing our homework has really helped,” said Dreher.

“Hosting private events, going to beer festivals as promotional vendors, getting our name out there — people now clearly understand what we’re doing.”

A well-designed website, graphics, promo items and thorough investor packages also help, all of which are Dreher’s work.

Currently doing digital marketing for a molecular pathology lab, Dreher studied at Georgia Tech, Savannah College of Art and Design, and Georgia State University. He met Baxter through mutual friends in

the local tennis community.

“I have amazing respect for Wayne’s talent, but I don’t do any of the brewing,” Dreher said. “There’s an art to it. You’re holding something alive, and you don’t know what it’s going to do every time.”

Baxter, who also owns a local software company, considered contracting for other breweries, just as locals Monday Night Brewing and Wild Heaven did when starting out, but decided against it. “We wanted to do our own thing and have our own brand,” he said. He’s been finding his own way since 2009.

After Baxter began brewing with locals in his Snellville neighborhood, he joined the city’s New Lon-

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“I have a recipe book of at least 150 different batches I’ve made over the last 10 years,” he said.

He’s done his homework as well by researching the craft beer industry, visiting over 250 breweries and interviewing another 200 by phone.

In the corner of the brewery’s vast warehouse, shiny silver metal tanks resem-

bling stout missiles sit waiting to be put into action.

“Looks like we’re either going to be invading a country or making great beer,” said Baxter. “They’re sleeping right now, ready for us to wake them up.”

Painted outlines on the concrete floor indicate where the 20- and 40-barrel fermentation tanks (620 and 1,240 gallons, respectively) will stand, as well as carbonation tanks and a brewhouse.

All will be enough to brew seven different beers at once.

Drainage trenches for the tanks will be dug next, then resurfacing of the brewery and front taproom floors.

Additional plans include a beer garden, an event space See BREWERY, C3

Above left, Monkey Wrench Brewing will be opening in Suwanee. (Special Photo: Jim Simpson) Above right, Monkey Wrench Brewing is located at 3425 Martin Farm Road in Suwanee. (Special Photo: Julia Simpson)

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Volunteers prepare to participate in a Great American Cleanup event for Gwinnett Clean and Beautiful in 2017. the local environmental group is expanding the annual clean-up effort into a year-round campaign. (Special Photo: Gwinnett Clean and Beautiful)

Annual cleanup program turns into year-round effort

By Curt Yeomans

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Gwinnett Clean and Beautiful is hoping to turn the usually three-month Great American Cleanup into a year-round effort to protect the county’s environment.

The environmental group recently announced the launch of Great American Cleanup 2.0. The idea is that community groups can submit project ideas and Gwinnett Clean and Beautiful will pick one project each month and provide funding to support it.

“In addition to our mission of connecting people and resources for a sustainable Gwinnett, our orga-

nization is dedicated to motivating our neighbors to take action on behalf of their community,” Gwinnett Clean and Beautiful Executive Director Schelly Marlatt said in a statement.

“With Great American Cleanup 2.0, we’re putting a fresh spin on an old but great idea. Based on the calls and emails we receive regularly, it’s clear that everyone sees a need for something like this. Now we can provide the funding needed to complete the cleanup, beautification, recycling, and other projects our neighbors have been itching to do!”

Project categories include: • Litter League: Oppor-

tunities to clean up litter along roadways, lakes, ponds or streams.

• Dial-A-Dumpster: Opportunities for cleanup projects such as cleaning up illegal dumping or removing invasive plants.

• Groom and Bloom: Opportunities to plant school or community gardens, or plant flowers in front of a neighborhood or business.

• Students Serving Seniors: Opportunities for students to help senior citizens to maintain their yards and gardens.

Information about submitting project ideas can be found at www.gwinnettcb. org/programs/great-american-cleanup.

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Above, Monkey Wrench Brewing is located at 3425 Martin Farm Road in Suwanee. (Special Photo: Julia Simpson) Below left, Joe Dreher and Wayne Baxter are the owners of Monkey Wrench Brewing in Suwanee.(Special Photo: Jim Simpson)

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Through the open doors and across the warehouse, Baxter spots a man at the front door. “Somebody’s thirsty.”

The visitor was from Philadelphia, in town on business and taking a break while checking Google Maps for a local brewery. Monkey Wrench popped up and he dropped by. Disappointed the brewery wasn’t open yet, he

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What does ‘full-time’ Several low growing trees suitable for small spaces college mean?

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ne thing entering students often don’t understand about college, as I’ve learned by talking with them as a professor and adviser, is the concept of “full-time.”

What exactly does it mean to be a “fulltime student”?

It doesn’t mean going to school is Jenkins all you do.

You can, for instance, be a full-time student and hold down a parttime job. I actually had a full-time job my senior year, although I don’t recommend it. But we’ll talk about that in a future column.

For now, understand that “full-time” is a designation used by colleges, government agencies and lenders. Technically, it means a student is taking at least 12 credit hours during the semester— although what I call “true fulltime” requires 15-17 credit hours. More about that in a moment.

But first, let’s define “credit hours,” which refers to the number of hours a student spends in class each week.

Most classes are three-credithour courses, which means you’ll be in class three hours a week.

Except not really. Generally, three-hour classes are actually two-and-a-halfhour classes, meeting either three times a week (Monday, Wednesday and Friday) for 50 minutes or twice a week (Tuesday-Thursday) for 75

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A good rule of thumb is that, for each “hour” in class, you can expect to spend about two hours working on your own outside of class. It might be a little less for some and more for others, but 2-to-1 is fairly standard.

Rob Jenkins

minutes.

That’s just the time you spend in class. A good rule of thumb is that, for each “hour” in class, you can expect to spend about two hours working on your own outside of class. It might be a little less for some and more for others, but 2-to-1 is fairly standard.

Thus, if you’re signed up for 12 hours, or four threehour classes, your actual work load will be about 36 hours a week. If you’re “true fulltime,” taking 15 hours, your work load will be 45 hours.

The reason I refer to 15-plus hours as “true full-time” is that most bachelor’s degrees (aka, “four-year degrees”) require around 124 credit hours. Dividing 124 by eight semesters—four years—gives us 15.5.

If you expect to graduate in four years, then you must take at least 15 hours each semester—although there are some ways around that, which we’ll get to in future columns.

The additional hours, to get to 124 or 125, come mostly in the form of one-hour classes, like science labs. A biology class with a lab, for instance, will actually be worth four

hours, with the lab as the fourth hour—although it’s usually scheduled separately from the lecture.

Other one-hour classes typically include P.E, study skills and orientation, if you’re required (or want) to take any of those.

So a typical full-time schedule might look like this: three 50-minute classes on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays and two 75-minute classes on Tuesdays and Thursdays, plus maybe a Tuesday lab. (Note: Many colleges observe a four-day schedule, where most classes meet twice a week.)

Does that leave time for a part-time job? A social life?

Sleep? We’ll explore that question next week.

Rob Jenkins is a local writer and college professor. He is the author of four books, including “Family Man: The Art of Surviving Domestic Tranquility” and “The 9 Virtues of Exceptional Leaders” (with Karl Haden), available at Liberty Books in downtown Lawrenceville and on Amazon. The views expressed here are his own. Email Rob at rjenkinsgdp@yahoo.com.

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rees have many excellent attributes such as providing shade, shelter for animals, protection from wind, and aesthetics.

They have a great value in the landscape, but many times they are planted in areas that are too small for their Daly mature size.

The problem is most notably observed under powerlines where the trees have to be trimmed constantly to keep them from interfering with the electric wires. When choosing trees to plant in the landscape, consider their size as they grow. Many smaller ones are available for areas with limited spaces.

In the spring, several trees provide colorful blossoms.

The native redbud grows up to 20 feet in height. They have heart-shaped leaves and produce pink to lavender flowers in clusters along the branches and stems. The tree has several cultivars with interesting characteristics including “Alba” with white flowers, “Forest Pansy” ith purple leaves in the spring that turn green during the summer, and ‘Silver Cloud’ with its creamy white variegated splotches.

When we think of magnolias, the Southern Magnolias come to mind. They are large evergreen trees that can be 30 to 40 feet tall. However, some species are smaller.

The star magnolia produces white flowers in early spring and grows up to 15 feet. Sau-

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Some species of trees are excellent for areas with limited space. Many choices exist that thrive in our climate and are attractive if given the proper growing conditions.

Tim Daly

cer magnolias reach 20 feet and produce purple to pink to white flowers several inches wide. Sometimes the trees are referred to tulip trees due to the shape and appearance of the blossoms. Late season freezes often occur causing the flowers to turn brown and die. Both have attractive foliage during the growing season and have minimal pest issues.

The common native dogwood produces showy white flowers in mid-spring with some cultivars, such as “Cherokee Chief’”and ‘’Cherokee Brave,’ have pink to rosecolored blooms. They are understory trees in forests and thus require partial shade. If planted in full sun, the trees will suffer from diminished growth and are more susceptible to pests. A non-native relative, the kousa dogwood, can tolerate full sun and produces its blossoms a couple of weeks later.

Two types of fringe trees perform well in our area: the common fringe tree and Chinese fringe tree. Both produce white clusters of feather appearing flowers in April and May and reach a height of 30 feet. They are excellent shade trees for small sites. Use fringe trees where their spring flowers can be appreciated.

Several maples have a low growing growth habit. Japanese maples are the most popular and well known. Hun-

dreds of cultivars are available that come in many shapes, sizes, and colors. Some nurseries specialize in the production of these trees solely. They vary in costs form from just a few dollars per tree to over $1,000. Amur maples grow 15 to 25 high with a rounded form. Their leaves have three lobes with the middle lobe being the longest and have yellow to orange fall color.

They are excellent for use as specimen trees, on patios and for screening. The paperbark maple grows up to 20 feet with coarsely-toothed trifoliate leaves that turn red to orange in the autumn. Paperbark maples have red-brown bark that exfoliates. Trident maples are somewhat more significant with a mature height of 30 feet. They have small three-lobed leaves that point downward. It has an oval to round shape. In the fall their leaves are bright to orange.

Some species of trees are excellent for areas with limited space. Many choices exist that thrive in our climate and are attractive if given the proper growing conditions.

Timothy Daly is an Agricultural and Natural Resource Extension Agent with UGA Extension Gwinnett. He can be contacted at 678377-4011or tdaly@uga.edu.

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Mama always followed the signs

omething nudged me I laughed when I pulled the other day and sent out a pair of homemade me to a closet where angel wings that I had high on a shelf, tucked worn in a church Christmas back in a corner, pageant when I was was a collection of about 8. I have to Mama’s gatherings. hand it to Mama — That box of she was mountain mishmash told a lot smart and resourceabout the woman. ful.

There were three The wings were magnifying glasses made from two of varying sizes, a wire clothes hangclock that had long ers that she had Rich stopped, an emery twisted together at board from a bank the hook. She then that closed 40 years ago (it spread them and covered still works great), a New them with a pair of my old, Testament, newspaper clip- white tights (I wore white pings that had to do with tights a lot, usually with her family including one of black patent shoes, but I her grand-nephew flying a did have a pair of shiny red kite when he was nine, and ones and a pair of mustard my favorite item: a half- colored ones that I had used pencil from the 1964 worn as a flower girl in my sheriff’s election. sister’s wedding). Mama

never stopped where most people would have. She did not halt her efforts at “good enough.” She always added something special.

To these wings, she sewed three small silver bells so they jingled as I walked across the tiny stage.

Not surprisingly, those wings are dirty and tattered.

It’s symbolic, I suppose.

Also in the collection I found was a TV instruction book on which Mama had written precise directions on how to make the TV work on cable. (Make sure it is turned to Channel 3. Remember those days?)

In the summer of 2007, she had torn from a magazine a poem about “God’s Kind Care.”

Owing to Mama’s careful attention to the kind of

doctoring that mountain people believe in, she had a booklet on “Folk Medicine” (ease aching muscles with ginger, heal wounds with blackberries and infection with juniper) and a much larger one on “The Miracle of Garlic and Vinegar” with the headliner “Flush Out Fat and Cholesterol.” Y’all have to admit: Mountain people knew things like this long before big city doctors with high degrees figured it out.

It’s hard to pick a favorite from this wonderful box of Mama’s, but I’m partial to a small notebook in which Mama had written down a few things. Apparently, she had consulted the almanac — or talked to my Aunt Kathleen or Uncle Delbert — about the best time to make what the Germans call

sauerkraut but our people call “Sour Kraut.”

Mama noted at the top of the page: “Signs good now.

Anytime.” Lower, she had written, “Make kraut when signs are below the hips, in legs or knees. Today is a good time. October 26.

Through all this week.”

Now, first of all, anyone who has ever made sauerkraut knows that if it isn’t made when the signs of the moon are right, that it will be bitter and uneatable. My brother-in-law, Rodney, loves sauerkraut. Frances West, a member of his Sunday school, used to make it and give him a few Mason jars every year.

Frances once said to me, “It’s true about making it by the signs. One year, I didn’t, and it didn’t make.

I throwed out the whole batch.”

Mountain folks believe that the cycle of the moon dictates gardens, healing, hair growing, tooth pulling and sour kraut making.

The next page over, Mama had written phone numbers for six people. None of our phone numbers have changed.

And neither have the signs for making sauerkraut. In a world of shifting sands, some things are timeless.

Mama’s collection of mishmash reminded me of that simple truth.

Ronda Rich is the best-selling author of the new “Let Me Tell You Something.” Visit www. rondarich.com to sign up for her free weekly newsletter.

Why your problem person is still a problem

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e’s horrible; send The same is true outside him to training. of the office.

How many times Many years ago my hushave you watched this band and I (somewhat scenario play out? An naively) took our 2-yearemployee is performing old to Hawaii to visit my poorly. Management gets cousin. We talked to her frustrated. They decide to in advance about what the send the person to train- plane ride would be like. ing. Clearly his behavior We practiced sitting still must be improved. in the car seat for Sending somea long time (in a one to training pre-iPhone era). is certainly more We came prehumane than firing pared with lots the person. But perof snacks. formance problems On the plane, are not always due she was great; to lack of skill. In she ate her meal, McLeod many cases, the ecoand loved looksystem surrounding at the clouds. ing the person is the root She was a delight at the problem. rental car place, standing For example, in our con- in line with us, loading our sulting practice we often gear into the Tracker. She work with leaders who even did well at the grocery want their sales team to be store, pointing and laughing more consultative. Instead as we bought provisions. of simply pitching prodThen, on the two-hour, ucts, they want their reps twisty turny drive to my to focus on the customer, cousin’s house, she lost it, ask more questions, and put completely totally lost it, their pitch decks aside until hands in the air, wailing they build value. So leaders and flailing. Upon arrival at put their sellers through my cousin’s beautiful home, consultative sales training. she threw herself out of the The problem is, more car seat onto the ground. often than not, the train- My cousin, who was looking doesn’t stick. ing forward to meeting my Research indicates 87 daughter for the first time, percent of new sales train- laughed and kindly joked, ing is lost within a month. “She makes a terrible first Sellers exhibit consultative impression.” skills in the classroom, yet It wasn’t because she back in the field, the trans- didn’t know how to behave; actional mindset takes over. it was because the cirEighty-five percent of sales cumstances made positraining fails to deliver a tive behavior impossible. positive ROI. A 16-hour journey, a time The issue isn’t salespeo- change and high altitude ple; it’s the ecosystem. couldn’t be overcome, no When an organization is matter how ingrained posifocused on its own metrics, tive behavior was. when sales managers never A slow waitress may be ask about customer impact, inattentive, or she may be and instead only focus on dealing with a backed-up the deal, the transactional kitchen 15 minutes behind mindset will prevail. When on orders. An aggressive the sales aids are product driver may be a jerk, or they dumps instead of conver- may be rushing their sick sation starters, the sales child to the doctor. team will default to pitchPositive behavior is only ing product without ask- as successful as the enviing questions. Consultative ronment will allow it to be. selling skills can’t survive If you’re dealing with in a transactional selling a problem employee or a ecosystem. problem family member, If you want someone to ask if the ecosystem is supmake a behavior change, porting the desired behavyou have to look at their ior. Or is it sabotaging it. ecosystem. Does the current ecosystem support Lisa McLeod is the global the desired behavior, or is expert in Noble Purpose. She it constantly eroding it? is the author of the best-sellers Behavior change is not sus- “Selling with Noble Purpose” and “Leading with tainable if the ecosystem Noble Purpose.” doesn’t reinforce it.

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AUBURN Library hosts pollinator plant workshop Pollinators are an essential part of our ecosystems, but they need our help.

Learn how you can create a vibrant and healthy habitat for pollinators at an upcoming workshop at the Auburn Public Library.

The pollinator planter workshop, scheduled for 6 to 7 p.m. Thursday, will begin with a talk about how to create habitats for pollinators in your backyard, with a focus on what to plant.

Afterwards, participants will create take-home pollinator planters for their yards.

Participants will also learn about the Great Georgia Pollinator Census, a citizenscience project hosted by UGA Extension.

The cost for the workshop is $20, which covers the plants, soil and growbag. Contact the library at 770-513-2925 for more information.

The Auburn Public Library is located at 24 5th St. in downtown Auburn.

BARROW COUNTY Barrow plans Great American Clean-up Barrow County residents can participate in the Great American Clean-up by bringing unwanted electronics, paint and tires to the official event.

The Barrow County Great American Clean-up will take place from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

May 3 and 8 a.m. to noon May 4 in the back parking lot at 233 E. Broad St. in Winder.

Residents can dispose of electronics and flat-panel TVs, appliances, scrap metal, batteries, paint, motor oil, eyeglasses and standard tires at the clean-up. No antifreeze, freon, pesticides or household garbage will be accepted.

The event is sponsored by Keep Barrow Beautiful with Republic Services, Atlanta Paint Disposal and Green Point Recycling.

For more information, visit www.barrowga.org.

under can also sign up onsite for the chalk art contest.

For more information, call 678-277-0920.

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Brenau University unveiled a new nursing simulation lab at the North Atlanta Campus in Norcross. Undergraduate and graduate nursing students will use the lab, hich has multiple rooms modeled after a hospital wing to hone their skills and practice on lifelike mannequins. (Special Photo: AJ Reynolds/Brenau University)

Brenau unveils nursing simulation laboratory at Norcross campus

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After seven months of construction, Brenau University recently celebrated the completion of its high-tech nursing simulation laboratory at the university’s Norcross campus.

In an effort to offer state-of-theart preparation for nurses entering the field, the university built the lab with more than $1 million in funding from Synergis Education and Optima Properties.

The lab will be used by students in Brenau’s Accelerated Bachelor of Science in nursing program and includes five fully stocked patient rooms.

“They all have working lights, air, suction, oxygen—everything that

would be in a real hospital room,” said program coordinator Laura Hart. “We have real hospital beds, real hospital equipment, vital sign monitors for our high-fidelity simulators, and each room has a dualcamera AV system that allows us to watch and record our students in their simulations and play them back during debrief.”

Students will practice on five highfidelity simulators: two adults, one pediatric, one newborn and one birthing simulator that can talk, bleed, cry, blink, give birth and even turn blue.

The simulations are expected to reduce the risk of mistakes for the nurses as they enter the workforce and carry out actual patient care.

“In the simulation if they make mistakes, it’s OK,” Hart said. “They

learn from that. They can kill the patient and we can hit rewind and do it over again until they get it right.”

Though the lab attempts to model real world situations, Hart says that there is one thing that makes it unique.

“Every room has its own observation room with one-way glass so that we can see what’s going on in there, but the students can’t see us watching them,” she said. “From those rooms, we can also control the simulators—what they say, what they do, their vital signs. We can make them bleed, have seizures, whatever we want them to do.”

Though the initial focus will be nursing students, the nurse practitioner program may be integrated in the future to create interdisciplinary scenarios.

BERKELEY LAKE Jr. Egg Hunt planned for toddlers, preschoolers Bring your little one to the Pinckneyville Community Recreation Center on April 13 for an egg-citing Easter egg hunt.

The Easter Pails and Bunny Tails Jr. Egg Hunt is for children who are age 4 or younger. The event will take place from 10 a.m. to noon April 13 at the Pinckneyville Rec Center, located at 4650 Peachtree Industrial Blvd. in Berkeley Lake.

The event fee is $7 per child. Parents must attend the event with their children.

To register, visit www. gwinnettparks.com and enter code PVP11644 or call 678-277-0920.

BRASELTON Braselton brings the beach to residents If you can’t make it to the beach over spring break, Braselton will soon have an event for you.

Braselton is bringing the beach to Braselton Park from 3 to 10 p.m. May 11. Tons of sand will be dumped in the park for the Braselton Beach Bash.

Pails and shovels will be provided for children to play in the sand, and adults can bring beach chairs or towels to kick back and listen to live music with The Duke Brothers Band while they watch the kids play.

Food trucks will be on site selling snacks and drinks, and the splash pad will be open for cooling off. All children’s activities, including an inflatable bounce house and rock climbing wall, will be free.

Braselton Park is located at 126 Harrison St. in downtown Braselton.

BUFORD OneStop Buford offers Spring Fling date night Need a date night? Treat

your partner to a romantic evening of dinner and dancing.

The Spring Fling, open to adult couples, will take place from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. April 17 at OneStop Buford Senior Dining Hall. The registration fee is $15 per person.

Childcare for children ages 6 to 12 is available during the event. Call OneStop Buford at 678-225-5360 by April 10 to request childcare.

To register, visit www. gwinnettparks.com and enter code OSB11006 or call the center.

High School, located at 3737 Brock Road in Duluth.

For more information, visit www.duluthwildcatwalk.com.

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Library offers spring break service project Spring break in Gwinnett County Public Schools means schools will be closed Monday through Friday, but the library will still be open.

Drop by the Grayson library between 2 and 4 p.m. on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday to work on a service project during spring break.

DACULA The Grayson branch of Celebrate the Gwinnett County PubArbor Day at lic Library is located at 700 Little Mulberry Park Grayson Parkway in GrayCelebrate Arbor Day by son. branching out into your For more information, favorite park. visit www.gwinnettpl.org/ Join a team of natural- venue/grayson-branch/. ists from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

April 27 at Little Mulberry LAWRENCEVILLE Park in exploring the life of trees through educational Egg hunts planned at activities, crafts and hikes. Lawrenceville venues The Easter bunny has a Arbor Day is a holiday celebrated throughout the world few events planned in April in which participants are in Lawrenceville.

An Illuminated Egg Hunt encouraged to plant trees.

The free event will take will take place the evening place in the outdoor educa- of April 13 at Rhodes Jortion area at Little Mulberry dan Park, located at 100 E. Park, located at 3855 Fence Crogan St. Activities will begin at 6 p.m., and the Road in Dacula.

For more information, tiered egg hunts will start at 8:15 p.m. call 770-814-4920.

The event for children ages 2 to 5 will begin at DULUTH 8:15 p.m., the event for chilS u p p o r t D u l u t h dren ages 6 to 9 will begin football at Wildcat Walk at 8:45 p.m., and the event The third annual Wildcat for children ages 10 to 12 Walk 5K and Fun Run will will begin at 9:15 p.m. return to Duluth on May 4.

Participants should bring The 5K is a fundraiser a flashlight and a basket. for the Duluth High School The registration fee is $6 football program. Regis- per child. Participants must tration is $20, and those register by April 9; walk-ins who register by April 20 will not be welcome the day will receive a T-shirt. of the event. Register online The race will begin at at www.gwinnettparks.com 9 a.m., and the route is in with code RJP11607 or call downtown Duluth. The race 678-277-0890. will begin and end at Duluth The EGGcellent Old Fash-

ioned Easter Event will take place from 10 a.m. to noon April 20 at the Isaac Adair House, located at 15 S. Clayton St. The event is for children ages 2 to 12.

Children will roll eggs in a race across the Preservation Lawn, decorate Victorian Easter greeting cards and, in the event’s finale, hunt for eggs. The cost is $6 per child. Register online at www.gwinnettparks.com with code IAH18102 or call 770-822-5178.

LILBURN Camping trip planned at Yellow River Park Celebrate spring by spending a night outdoors.

A family campout will take place April 12 to 13 at Yellow River Park, located at 3232 Juhan Road. The fee is $15 per person.

Participants should bring their own tent, sleeping bags and chairs. Dinner, breakfast and s’mores around the campfire will be provided.

Register by April 10 online at www.gwinnettparks.com with code YRP11601. For more information, call 678277-0875 or 678-978-5271.

LOGANVILLE American Legion to honor first responders The American Legion Post 233 in Loganville will honor first responders April 12 at its First Responders Appreciation Dinner.

Scheduled speakers include Loganville Mayor Rey Martinez, Walton County Commission Chairman Kevin Little and U.S. Rep Jody Hice.

The event will take place from 6 to 8:30 p.m. in the Main Hall.

The American Legion is located at 4635 Atlanta Highway in Loganville. For more information, visit www.gapost233.com.

NORCROSS Norcross seeks census committee volunteers The city of Norcross has announced its intention to form a nine-member Complete Count Committee to help achieve a “complete count” for the Norcross area in the U.S. 2020 Census.

The census is conducted nationwide every 10 years, and the results help determine local governments’ eligibility for federal and state grants. Historically, lowincome neighborhoods and those with large non-English speaking populations have tended to be undercounted, resulting in those areas receiving less aid for housing, transportation and other public spending than they would have been entitled to otherwise.

The nine-member committee will consist of community members selected by the mayor and City Council who will help achieve an accurate count by raising awareness of the 2020 U.S. Census and working with local leaders to make sure the survey is carried out accurately.

According to the most recent U.S. census estimates, Norcross’ estimated population is 16,845, composed of 5,450 households.

PEACHTREE CORNERS Art on Chattahoochee to include egg hunts Art on the Chattahoochee will bring arts, crafts, live entertainment, games and more to Jones Bridge Park on April 20.

The annual festival will take place from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the park, located at 4901 E. Jones Bridge Road in Peachtree Corners. This year, Easter egg hunts will take place throughout the day, and the Easter bunny will be available for photos.

Children ages 17 and

New cleanup effort takes aim at Snellville streets Snellville Mayor Pro Tem Dave Emanuel wants the city to be “Clean and Proud.”

Emanuel’s new initiative calls for the creation of city cleanup crews that will operate as part of the Snellville Clean and Proud team. The city crew, which is made up of Council members and city staff, will adopt a 1-mile portion of Oak Road and keep it litter free.

“Individual litter cleanup efforts by local residents were what inspired me to come up with the Snellville Clean and Proud program,” Emanuel said. “My intention isn’t just to clean up our streets, but to make fighting litter a community building initiative. Along the way, we’ll build awareness of the problems litter cause and hopefully inspire more people to get involved in cleanup efforts. and we’re not just talking about litter, we’re doing something about it.”

Emanuel said residents can form their own cleanup crews under the Clean and Proud program. Anyone interested in more information should email him at demanuel@snellville.org.

SUGAR HILL Eagle Theatre offers $2 movies for spring break Staying home for spring break? For those playing stay-cations while school’s out, the Eagle Theatre in Sugar Hill will offer $2 movies at noon and 7 p.m. Monday through Friday.

Monday’s movie will be “Moana,” the Disney animated film about a strongwilled Polynesian girl who is chosen by the ocean to reunite a mystical relic with a goddess.

On Tuesday, the theater will show “Avatar,” the epic science fiction film set in the mid-22nd century, when humans are colonizing Pandora to mine the mineral unobtanium.

Wednesday’s film will be “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse,” the animated superhero film that won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.

Thursday’s movie will be “Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation,” the animated comedy in which Dracula finds love with a ship captain named Ericka Van Helsing while on vacation.

On Friday, the theater will show “Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle,” which is set 21 years after the original film and follows four teenagers who are transported into the video game world of Jumanji and play as their chosen characters.

Tickets are available online at www.eagleatsugarhill.com or at the Eagle Theatre box office.

SUWANEE Lantern building workshops lead up to festival In preparation for Glow in the Park, Suwanee’s annual community lantern parade and festival, the North Gwinnett Arts Association is offering several lantern building workshops.

The community is invited to create glowing or illuminated costumes or carry illuminated paper lanterns during the event.

Several workshops are scheduled from April 10 to 19, each with a different theme. Themes include fantasy/magical creatures, monsters, flowers/nature, parasols and wacky lanterns. To register, visit www. ngaa4arts.com/glow-in-thepark.

The Arts Association is also selling pre-made lanterns and DIY lantern kits at the NGAA Arts Center, located at 3930 Charleston Market Street.

For more information about the festival, visit glowinthepark.suwanee.com.

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Good News From Schools

GCPS recognizes Career and Tech students

By Heather Darenberg Staff Correspondent

Recognizing their achievement in Career and Technical Education courses, Gwinnett County Public Schools recently highlighted the work of 24 high school students during its 2019 Career and Technical Education Student of the Year awards program.

The selection process required nominated students to submit a transcript, a letter of recommendation from the nominating teacher, information on participation in a Career and Technical Student Organization, details about their community service and an essay. In the final piece of the competition, students participated in an interview conducted by a panel of judges consisting of business and industry leaders.

Juliet La, a marketing student at Discovery High School, was named the overall winner and received a $1,000 scholarship provided

by Learning Labs.

Shama Khan, a health care student at Central Gwinnett High School, was named first runner-up and received a $750 scholarship provided

by Atlanta Electrical Contractors Association. Matthew Lescota, an engineering and entrepreneurship student at Brookwood High School, was named second runner-up and received a $500 scholarship

Matthew Lacosta, from left, of Brookwood High, Shama Khan of Central Gwinnett High and Juliet La of Discovery High were named winners in Gwinnett County Public Schools’ 2019 Career and Technical Education Student of the Year awards program. La was named the GCPS Career and Technical Education Student of the Year. (Special Photo) provided by the GCPS Foundation.

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In addition to the above winners, these students are: ● Rebecca Young, Archer High ● Liul Shimels, Berkmar High ● Tia Wren, Collins Hill High ● Michael Milroy, Dacula High ● Karina Siberon, Duluth High ● Cameron Smith, Grayson Technical Program ● Anushka Saxena, Gwinnett School of Mathematics, Science and Technology ● Britley Jones, Lanier High ● Ryan Bronaugh, Maxwell High School of Technology ● Alicia Ramirez-Hernandez, Meadowcreek High ● Melody Pogula, Mill

Creek High ● Lauryn Jackson, Mountain View High ● Melanie Gonzales, Norcross High ● Julianne Pace, North Gwinnett High ● Kasfia Kazi, Parkview High ● Smit Patel, Peachtree Ridge High ● Sanisha Shah, Paul Duke STEM High, ● Angie Alvarez, Phoenix High ● Nimra Khan, Shiloh High ● Elijah Smith, South Gwinnett High Good News from Schools appears in the Gwinnett Daily Post’s Sunday Edition, highlighting achievements and success.

5 UPS drivers from Gwinnett honored

Recognition highlights employees with 25-year accident-free driving records KEVIN LANGSTON

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UPS’ Circle of Honor group recognizes delivery employees for being good drivers for a quarter of a century or more. This year, 29 UPS drivers from Georgia were recognized as new inductees into the Circle of Honor, part of a wider group of 1,436 inductees from around the world.

The inductees from Gwinnett include Dacula residents Jeffrey Arnow and

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“My thanks go to all of them for their dedication and focus and for the countless lives they’ve saved,” UPS South Atlantic District President Derrick Johnson said in a statement. “Their attention to detail has kept them safe and has helped improve public safety.”

In all, a total of 344 UPS drivers from Georgia have been inducted into the Circle of Honor over the years.

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